charity mugger

charity mugger

Someone who approaches people to collect donations or set up standing orders for a charity. The charity muggers in this town are so tenacious, and they make you feel like a horrible person if you don't contribute something!
See also: charity, mugger
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • mugger
  • at (something's) lowest ebb
  • ebb
  • on the downgrade
  • mooch
  • mooch (something) from
  • mooch from
  • way to go!
  • sponger
  • bluff (someone) out of (something)
References in periodicals archive
The Big Mac worker gets pounds 17,680, a bank clerk pounds 17,500 and a high street fundraiser or "charity mugger" pounds 18,000.
ONE-IN-47; That's our troops' chance of being killed in Afghan war
Fundraisers seem to think that the best way to get us to donate is either to get us to do something "crazee" or set the the "chugger" or charity mugger on you.
FROM THE BARBER'S CHAIR
Well, chugger is a charity mugger ( the kind of geekish guy with split ends, an anorak and a clipboard who nobbles you for a donation to some good cause on Linthorpe Road.
Albert Park's Column
CHORE LAUGHS LITTLE Karen gets the better of a charity mugger in tonight's episode, which also sees Pete and the boys turning their hands to domestic chores.
Record tv
LITTLE Karen gets the better of a charity mugger in tonight's episode that also sees Pete and the boys turning their hands to domestic chores while Karen and her mum enjoy some quality mother and daughter time together.
We love telly; Lying Kings
They say God helps those who help themselves, and Sophie finds her charity mugger friends at Roof And Refuge helped themselves to her dad's 20 grand.
Record tv; PICK OF THE DAY
WE LOVE SITcOm OUtnUmBereD BBc1, 9pm LittLe Karen gets the better of a charity mugger in tonight's episode that also sees Pete and the boys turning their hands to domestic chores while Karen and her mum enjoy some quality mother and daughter time together.
We lovetelly; Catherine is cooking up a storm PIck OF ThE DAY
8 Chugger - charity mugger. 9 Freakonomics - shock best-seller about, er, statistics 10 Operation Sassoon - last-resort plan for mass evacuation of London.
THE A LISTS; THE BEST & THE WORST OF 2005
Then there are the deluded so-called charity muggers - chuggers - enthusiastic young people who ought to be child entertainers.
A few salespeople have muscle... sadly most are full of gas
A loophole means these collectors - nicknamed 'chuggers' for charity muggers - are still able to operate as they do not actually exchange money.
New policy for 'chuggers'
Before last summer, there were up to 42 chuggers - short for charity muggers - targeting passers-by each day and the deal set a limit of 12.
Fewer chuggers allowed on city streets
Before last summer, there were up to 42 chuggers - short for 'charity muggers' - targeting passers each day.
Street 'chuggers' facing further limits to reduce nuisance
It has emerged that the council was forced to put a public space protection order (PSPO) for the city on hold after a legal threat from the Public Fundraising Association (PFRA) - which represents so-called charity muggers.
Chugger ban is put on hold; CHARITIES THREATEN COUNCIL WITH LEGAL ACTION
The Tyneside authority has revealed it plans to eradicate chuggers - slang for "charity muggers" - possibly by the end of the summer.
Chuggers can keep chugging
Cold calling is probably the worst, followed by those pleasant faced young chuggers (charity muggers) who try to get you to sign up to pay a monthly direct debit in the street.
Laws to stop plastic charity bags needed