cap in hand

Idioms  

1. see under hat in hand.

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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.

From BBC

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

"I've had to go cap in hand to friends, which is really degrading, but you have no choice," she said.

From BBC

"There's an etiquette at these award shows and because we never came with cap in hand we got a wee bit of backlash. People said, 'Oh, they weren't smiling,' as if we were being ungrateful," said singer Alloysious Massaquoi.

From BBC

“We stand here cap in hand,” he said earlier this year.

From Washington Times