cap in hand
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Morgan told Sunday's BBC Politics Wales "underpinning the economic future of Wales, that's what I'm interested in because I don't want to continue to go cap in hand" to Westminster.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2025
Khan said direct foreign investments from Pakistanis overseas would help the country to avoid going cap in hand to the IMF for help.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2023
Kim did not flag any fundamental change in direction, however, nor suggest in the Tuesday remarks that he would approach the West, cap in hand, for sanctions relief.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2021
Imagine a world of well-funded public media in which PBS affiliates didn’t have to go, logo cap in hand, to beg for money every quarter.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
All they had in the world was the nerve to stand in a back yard with cap in hand and sing loudly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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