tug at your forelock BrE
touch your forelock
pull your forelocks

Now accept it, tug your forelock and move on.

"Even if all it means is having to tug your forelock to every Whitecloak who comes along, do you want to live that way?

Swallow your pride and tug your forelock.

Stop tugging your forelock.

The real reason you tugged your forelock to Capron was that you were afraid of being kicked out?'

Tug your forelock, know your place...

- Pull up a pink gin and tug your forelock at the first Lost in Royalbiz - your daily look at the wedding the media would have you believe is all about class.

It set you off remembering the days when you were one of the village lads, carting dung, and touching your forelock to the Squire.' '

Experience had taught Durine that when you bumped up against one, you merely lowered your gaze, touched your forelock, muttered 'm'lord' and shuffled out of the way, unless of course you were killing him, but either way it didn't much matter if you remembered his name or not.