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go begging

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go begging

to be available. Good jobs still go begging in the health care and teaching fields.

See also: beg

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Passepartout was not the man to let an idea go begging, and directed his steps towards the docks.

Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context

"It von't go begging," replied the German with a smile.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all over the city of Ithaca, and was notorious as an incorrigible glutton and drunkard.

The Odyssey by Homer View in context

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