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go begging
Idioms and Phrases
Be in little or no demand, as in At this time of year barrels of apples go begging . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
The last of the line of the Great Moguls of India had to go begging for a prison.
In the future, for all the sympathy that he will arouse, Yan might as well go begging with a silver bowl.
Ideas always have to go begging at first, and the greater the idea the rougher the sledding.
It is as ignoble to go begging conditions as to go begging bread.
Yet this region does not need to go begging for jays, only they belong to different groups of the Garrulinæ subfamily.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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