begging-bowl

We all know, do we not, to whom the begging-bowl will be proferred first when the time comes.

Not In Front Of The Children, Dear 2007

We all know, do we not, to whom the begging-bowl will be proferred first when the time comes.

Archive 2007-11-25 2007

In a begging-bowl email he sent to a list of Republican fatcats last month, Leitch asserted that Gonzales is "innocent of any wrongdoing."

CHARITY BEGINS...WHERE? 2007

I have pencilled in on my Christmas and post-Christmas wishlist various of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translations of the greats, but my knowledge of Russian itself is, I'm afraid, a few scraps in a begging-bowl.

languagehat.com: LINKS. 2005

The Minister for Economic Development and Transport Andrew Davies: On seeing the Plaid Cymru motion and amendment for this debate, I thought ‘Here we go again’; it is typical of the nationalists with their dispiriting, backward-looking, begging-bowl mentality.

Oliver Twist? 2004

‘Oho, hast thou turned yogi with thy begging-bowl?’ she cried.

Kim 2003

‘Huh! What can old eyes see except a full begging-bowl?’

Kim 2003

Yet, instead of going out at once with the begging-bowl, he stayed his stomach on slabs of cold rice till the full dawn.

Kim 2003

The NEPAD leadership and secretariat are hard at work on the projects and collaborative linkups which promise to propel Africa into self-sufficient and sustainable development, and end, once and for all, the picture of Africa as a perceived place of permanent need and the proffered begging-bowl.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

He fumbled in his bosom and drew forth a worn, wooden begging-bowl.

Kim 2003