begging
11begging bowl — begging .bowl n 1.) used to talk about a request for money made by an organization or country ▪ Arts and theatre groups are constantly thrusting the begging bowl at the government. 2.) a container which a beggar holds out to people for money …
12Begging You — Infobox Single | Name = Begging You Artist = The Stone Roses from Album = Second Coming Released = November, 1995 Format = CD, cassette, vinyl record 12 Recorded = 1993 1994 (Written 1993) Genre = Madchester, Indie rock Length = 4:52 Label =… …
13Begging the question — Bust of Aristotle, whose Prior Analytics contained an early discussion of this fallacy. Begging the question (or petitio principii, assuming the initial point ) is a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proven is assumed… …
14BEGGING AND BEGGARS — Although the Bible is concerned with the poor and the needy, there is hardly a reference to begging or to beggars, and there is, in fact, no biblical Hebrew word for it. The needs of the poor were provided by the laws of leket, shikhḥah , and pe… …
15begging bowl — UK [ˈbeɡɪŋ ˌbəʊl] / US [ˈbeɡɪŋ ˌboʊl] noun [countable] Word forms begging bowl : singular begging bowl plural begging bowls a) a bowl carried by someone who is asking for food or money b) a request for money made by a country or an organization …
16begging letter — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms begging letter : singular begging letter plural begging letters a letter asking for money, usually written by a poor person to someone they know is rich …
17begging the question — noun A logical fallacy in which a premise of an argument contains a direct or indirect assumption that the conclusion is true; offering a circular argument; circular reasoning. It is an instance of begging the question to argue that God can only… …
18begging the question — Strictly speaking, to beg a question is to present as proof something that itself needs proving. Bernstein cites as an example the sentence Parallel lines will never meet because they are parallel. The second half of the sentence only seems to …
19begging for it — Vrb phrs. A general comment on a person s supposed, if not actual, yearning for sexual intimacies. E.g. Cor, look at her! She s begging for it …
20begging — ➡ homelessness * * * …
