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honor
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do the honors
to perform social duties at an event. Jerry, I need to go into the kitchen for a moment, so why don't you do the honors and get Carol a drink?
Usage notes: usually said about serving food and drinks or greeting and introducing guests

on your honor

1. with a serious promise. She swore on her honor that she'd finish the assignment.
2. without being watched to see if you behave in the right way. We ask people, on their honor, to avoid leaving garbage at the campsite.
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Va, bienheureux: et si ces blanches mains / Et si ces bras celestement humains / Te daignent tant honorer de te prendre, // Soient en tes sons si doucement deduiz / Les coustumiers acords de mes ennuiz / Que mon amour elle puisse comprendre.
The Gendering of the Lute in Sixteenth-Century French Love Poetry [*] by ZECHER, CARLA / Renaissance Quarterly
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