cap in hand
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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
"We'd never had to rely on anything like that in the past, it was a new experience and just felt a bit cap in hand, I suppose".
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2022
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
A rather decent-looking sort of fellow appears, cap in hand, before the Club Secretary at Muirfield.
From Golf Digest • May 5, 2020
He stood, too, cap in hand, wanting, she knew, to say more, but not knowing quite how.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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