- beg|ging bowl
- beg|ging bowl «BEHG ihng»,1. a bowl for collecting food, used especially by mendicant priests in countries of Asia: »
Buddhist monks…paddled from house to house with their begging bowls (New York Times).
2. Figurative. a request or appeal for help: »We have come here not to hold out a begging bowl but to hold out to Midlands industry a magnificent opportunity of developing in the Northeast (Manchester Guardian).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.