/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Cap in Hand
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Submissively. To wait on a man cap in hand is to wait on him like a servant, ready to do his bidding.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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