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cadge from
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cadge something from someone and cadge something off someone
Sl. to beg or borrow something from someone. Go cadge some sugar from the lady next door. I cadged this jacket off a friendly guy I met.


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Tonight's episode concerns the boys' attempts to earn or cadge money for a history-class's field trip, while sneaking Acerelo's grandmother's medicine past a border of thugs.
Here a troupe of actors repetitively and obsessively works through character studies culled from scenarios that range from the broadly physical slapstick entertainment that was part of Irish wakes a few centuries ago to the life of Birdie Jo Hoaks, a twenty-fiv e-year-old woman who passed as a thirteen-year-old orphan boy to cadge welfare benefits in the mid-'90s.
One way these congressional staffers use their power is to cadge free travel from organizations with a keen interest in pending legislation.
 
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