mooch off (of) (someone or something)
mooch off (of) (someone or something)
To ask for or obtain (something) through the charity of someone or something; to sponge off someone or something else. My brother has been mooching off me and my wife ever since he lost his job. You can't expect to get very far in life just by mooching off of the success of other people.
See also: mooch, off
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- check off
- be off for (something)
- be off for sth
- cadge (something) off (someone)
- cadge something off someone
- bum (something) off (someone)
- bum off
- bum something off someone
- break off
- base off (of) (something else)