do the honors

1. 1.

   act as the host and receive or introduce one's guests

   Broaderhost

Questions about do the honors

What does do the honors mean?

do the honors means "act as the host and receive or introduce one's guests".

Is do the honors a common word?

do the honors is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.