0 a piece of hair that grows or falls over the forehead (= part of the face above the eyes) or the part of a horse's mane that falls forward between its ears
They found it not in the ancestral piles and forelock-tugging tenantry still prized by provincial elites, but in the determined pursuit of luxurious fashion in the capital.
They touched their forelocks, accepted their money and that was it.
The time when the working classes in this country have pulled their forelocks to their betters has gone.
We should widen the responsibility and make it clear that we do not simply have one door to which those people come crawling on their knees, tugging their forelocks.
I took time by the forelock and went to see my supplier.
They would have taken time by the forelock and gone on spending more money than we have done since 1945.
We have to take time by the forelock and be ready with permanent plans.
Today, employees are not prepared to accept the forelock-touching attitude of yesteryear.
