The question therefore remains: is investor confidence that enables the government to tap the equity market a measure of the economy’s resilience or merely a continuation of the begging bowl syndrome ...
MSN: 'Begging bowl to the Middle East won't work': Pakistan trolled over its fuel crisis response
'Begging bowl to the Middle East won't work': Pakistan trolled over its fuel crisis response
Internet begging is the modern practice of asking people to give money to others via the Internet, rather than in person.
Define begging. begging synonyms, begging pronunciation, begging translation, English dictionary definition of begging. v. begged , beg ging , begs v. tr. 1. a. To ask for something in an urgent or humble manner: begged me for help; begged me to give him the phone number.
be going begging (British English, informal) if something is going begging, it is available because nobody else wants it I’ll have that last cake if it’s going begging.
Idioms beg the question, to assume the truth of the point in dispute: If you try to prove that the death penalty reduces crime by saying that crime is reduced by having the death penalty, you are begging the question.
Then a 17-year-old boy is begging for his life. The i8 took the obstacles like a champ, throwing gravel and begging for more. Soon, she was begging him to go downstairs into their basement. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.
His earliest memories are of begging on the street. Universities are begging for policy certainty. They carried banners and placards with messages begging for the passage of humanitarian aid. They are already begging to meet her. That ball was begging to be slammed home from close range.