beg : Idioms & Phrases
Index
beg off
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verb ask for permission to be released from an engagement
excuse.
WordNet
I beg to
- is an elliptical expression for I beg leave to; as, I beg to inform you.
Webster 1913
To bag the question
- to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument.
Webster 1913
To beg (one) for a fool
- to take him for a fool .
Webster 1913
To beg the question
- . See under
Beg .
Webster 1913
To go a-begging
- a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.
- not to be in demand; to be undesired.
