begging bowl
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbegandbowl
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beg
verb
uk/beɡ/us/beɡ/
to make a very strong and ...
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bowl
noun
uk/bəʊl/us/boʊl/
a round container that is open at the top and is deep enough to hold fruit, ...
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(Definition ofbegandbowlfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He painted an exceedingly black picture—indeed, a picture of abeggingbowlsociety.
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Nothing would be further from the truth than to imagine that in this respect we are holding out abeggingbowl.
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Why should we send thebeggingbowlround?
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It saddens me to think that the great port of the 1940s and 1950s has had to bring out thebeggingbowlonce more.
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It has been described as thebeggingbowlmentality.
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This is not a "beggingbowl" occasion nor one for a vast amount of special pleading.
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I want to see the end of the "beggingbowl" mentality.
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At the time of a general election thebeggingbowlis passed around more ostentatiously and effectively.
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We are not carrying abeggingbowlinto the next century.
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We are not here with thebeggingbowl; far from it.
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I had visions of myself with abeggingbowlon behalf of the football clubs.
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