Last Updated：2025/11/29

(idiomatic) To give respect or reverence to someone; to express servitude to someone; to draw strength or comfort from someone who is superior.

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touch the hem of someone's garment

Source Word

touch the hem of someone's garment

idiomatic

Japanese Meaning

誰かに敬意や畏敬の念を示す行為をする / 目上の人に対して服従の意を表す / 上位者から心の慰めや支えを得る

多くの信徒は、長老が部屋に入るときに、深い敬意を示してその人の衣の裾に触れることが今でもある。

Sense（1）

Thus, at peace with God and the world, the farmer of Grand-Pré

Lived on his sunny farm, and Evangeline governed his household.

Many a youth, as he knelt in the church and opened his missal,

Fixed his eyes upon her, as the saint of his deepest devotion;

Happy was he who might touch her hand or the hem of her garment!

touches the hem of someone's garment

（ present singular third-person ）

touching the hem of someone's garment

（ participle present ）

touched the hem of someone's garment

（ participle past ）

touched the hem of someone's garment

（ past ）