go begging
Be in little or no demand, as in At this time of year barrels of apples go begging. [Late 1500s]
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How to use go begging in a sentence
The last of the line of the Great Moguls of India had to go begging for a prison.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin EmersonIn the future, for all the sympathy that he will arouse, Yan might as well go begging with a silver bowl.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours | Ernest BramahIdeas always have to go begging at first, and the greater the idea the rougher the sledding.
How to Analyze People on Sight | Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine BenedictIt is as ignoble to go begging conditions as to go begging bread.
Tablets | Amos Bronson AlcottYet this region does not need to go begging for jays, only they belong to different groups of the Garrulinæ subfamily.
Birds of the Rockies | Leander Sylvester Keyser
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