beg for (someone or something)
beg for (someone or something)
To plead or ask earnestly for something or someone. Our kids have been begging for a dog for years, and we're finally getting them one. I tried to calm my little cousin down and distract her, but she still begged for her mama all night.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
beg for someone or something
to plead to be given someone or something. He missed Jane a lot and was just begging for her to return to him. Jane begged for another helping of ice cream.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- beg for
- bark at
- bark at (someone or something)
- beg (something) from (someone)
- beg from
- keep the wolf from the door
- keep the wolf from the door, to
- exhort
- exhort (one) to (do something)
- exhort to do