ask alms

VERB

beg

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bite call on hustle scrounge

STRONG

benefit brace bum burn buzz cadge chisel freeload knock mooch nick panhandle score sponge tap touch want

WEAK

call upon clamor for dime up hit up live hand to mouth mendicate nickel up pass the hat put the bite on put the touch on solicit charity sponge on

Antonyms

WEAK

give

VERB

panhandle

Synonyms

STRONG

bum cadge freeload hustle mooch scrounge sponge

WEAK

hit up hold out one's hand live hand to mouth pass the hat solicit charity

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ask alms

A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are few public charities; and it is not a common custom to ask alms.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

Then he told the beggar to ask alms again; but the beggar refused, because he feared that the magician, who was then absent, would return home and eat him up.

From Italian Popular Tales by Crane, Thomas Frederick

Juan became so poor at last that he was forced to ask alms from his brother, or what was only the same thing, a loan.

From Philippine Folk-Tales by Millington, W. H.

Could I ask alms or borrow what I could not pay?

From Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories by Green, Anna Katharine

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