pay one's respect to

pay one's respect to
{v. phr.} To discharge one's social obligations by visiting someone or by calling them on the phone. * /The newly arrived people paid their respects to their various neighbors during their first couple of weeks in town./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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