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"begging bowl in hand"

Portuguese translation: mendigando/pedindo/rogando/passando o chapéu

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English term or phrase:begging bowl in hand
Portuguese translation:mendigando/pedindo/rogando/passando o chapéu
Entered by: Erik Bry

20:57 Sep 25, 2008
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
English term or phrase: "begging bowl in hand"
Ms Rose said walking and cycling across the bridge was an equity issue and "a human right". She said the push for links across the bridge, costed by consultants at up to $42.8 million, would optimise benefits of a more expensive structural strengthening project for which engineers did not have to go "begging bowl in hand" to the Government for money

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
Marcella S.
New Zealand
Local time: 11:23
mendigando/pedindo/rogando
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Erik Bry
Local time: 17:23
Grading comment
muito obrigada. gosto do
'passando o chapéu"
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3 +4mendigando/pedindo/rogando
Erik Bry


  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
mendigando/pedindo/rogando


Explanation:
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Erik Bry
Local time: 17:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
muito obrigada. gosto do
'passando o chapéu"

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Humberto Ribas: com o pires na mão; com o chapéu estendido
13 mins
  -> thanks Humberto
agree  Bruno Parga: Concordo com o Humberto e acrescentaria "passar o chapéu" ou "passando o chapéu".
55 mins
  -> thanks Bruno
agree  Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun: passando o chapéu
10 hrs
  -> grato
agree  Alexandra Gouveia: :-)
11 hrs
  -> ;-)
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