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go begging |
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go begging Fig. to be left over, unwanted, or unused. (As if a thing were begging for an owner or a user.) There is still food left. A whole lobster is going begging. Please eat some more, There are many excellent books in the library just going begging because people don't know they are there. See also: beg go begging to be available Good jobs still go begging in the health care and teaching fields. See also: beg How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Passepartout was not the man to let an idea go begging, and directed his steps towards the docks. "It von't go begging," replied the German with a smile. 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. |
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