cap in hand

1. see under hat in hand.

Example Sentences

The possibility of having to turn, cap in hand, to the International Monetary Fund for a loan or to require intervention from the European Central Bank, is no longer fanciful.

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The Conservative leader told BBC Newsnight that the UK could be forced to go "cap in hand" to the IMF unless the government delivers a plan for economic growth.

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"And we know why - the government has gone cap in hand to China to bail out its terrible handling of the British economy," she added.

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Wales' first minister has called for a funding system change, saying she does not want to "continue to go cap in hand" to Westminster.

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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.

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