Sentences with phrase «begging bowl»
The phrase "begging bowl" refers to a symbol of poverty or a situation where someone is desperately asking others for help or money to survive. Full definition
We don't have to take begging bowls around the world.
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«The Buddha's right hand points downward to touch the earth; the other hand supports a begging bowl, symbolizing acceptance of the gift... grace.
The Israelis are arrogant and rude and dismissive but their begging bowls are always out and they expect them to be filled.
The outrageous and criminal acts of the Israelis are legend yet they thumb their noses at their critics and bring out their begging bowls.
Only this begging bowl, poor battered cup of my heart where once given to feeling now emptiness steals, catching at each new breath which, like the shore air over these waters, these sands, slips and runs away.
Seeing a team standing on the street with their begging bowl is not good for F1.
The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has taken its begging bowl to China for some foreign cash to support its November 2016 presidential and parliamentary electioneering campaign.
To huge applause, the former Ukip leader added: «We didn't fight to win that referendum to argue with a begging bowl in Brussells for better [fishing] quotas.
If the consequences were so dire, why didn't the Irish government stand firm and demand much more in return for no default, instead of ending up looking like a shoeless urchin holding out the begging bowl?!
I watched a group of young nuns going from market stall to market stall chanting and holding out a begging bowl.
[brash boy nervously extends his begging bowl to stern and skin - flinted master, fearful of the consequences.]