beg from

beg (something) from (someone)

To plead or ask someone earnestly for something. I forgot my wallet at home today, so I had to beg some money from my friends for lunch.
See also: beg
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

beg something from someone

to plead for something from someone. She begged the amount of a telephone call from someone who walked by. I begged a dollar from a kind lady who went by.
See also: beg
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • beg (something) from (someone)
  • beg on bended knee
  • bended
  • beg pardon
  • beg
  • entreat
  • entreat (one) to (do something)
  • I beg your pardon, but (something)
  • beg your pardon, but
  • beg off
References in classic literature
Telemachus took a whole loaf from the bread-basket, with as much meat as he could hold in his two hands, and said to Eumaeus, "Take this to the stranger, and tell him to go the round of the suitors, and beg from them; a beggar must not be shamefaced."
Odyssey
For example one beggar from a group of beggars would beg from noon till evening and then the other beggar would beg from evening till night.
Finally, on the Day of Resurrection, that dishonourable person will meet Allah with no flesh left on his face.' (Muslim, Zakat, 103) And, 'It is better for one among you to bring a load of firewood on his back and give charity out of it (and satisfy his own need) and be independent of people, than that he should beg from people, whether they give him anything or refuse him (Muslim, Zakat, 107)
Begging a business?