Surely, when it all blows over, they'll come back hat in hand. (queens-politics.com)
Barack Obama, Varsano believed, created an environment hostile to private aviation: The president humiliated the near - bankrupt auto manufacturers after they arrived in Washington hat in hand on their corporate jets, and in a 2011 news conference about the economy, Obama mentioned corporate jets six times. (nytimes.com)
Officials from Appleton and nearby cities said Thursday that being able to raise a local sales tax to pay for public transportation would prevent them from regularly going hat in hand to the federal government. (dailyreporter.com)