begging bowl

noun

1. a bowl carried by a beggar, esp a Franciscan or other friar or a Buddhist monk, to receive food or alms

Example Sentences

As long as Western governments talk tough one minute and hold out the begging bowl the next, not much is likely to change.

From The Daily Beast

Very 2009 is its riff on imagination and creativity as the only nourishment that can keep “the begging bowl of the Buddha” full.

From The Daily Beast

Yet, instead of going out at once with the begging-bowl, he stayed his stomach on slabs of cold rice till the full dawn.

From Project Gutenberg

He went out to levy on the village—not with a begging-bowl, which might do for down-country, but in the manner of a prince.

From Project Gutenberg

The yellow-robed priest with his begging-bowl is everywhere present.

From Project Gutenberg

He came with begging bowl in hand, to beg of the king; for of what use is sacrifice unless something be given at the sacrifice?

From Project Gutenberg

With the jewel that was in her left hand she touched his rice-straw hat and his staff and his rosary and his begging bowl.

From Project Gutenberg