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
Mr McGirr predicted: "You will see larger suppliers feeling the pain as well and they will come cap in hand for a bailout."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2021
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
With cap in hand and shoulders sloped, he followed, walking over a rug so soft and deep that it seemed he was going to fall at each step he took.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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