Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
begging bowl
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a school we did not want to be seen as constantly rolling out the begging bowl.
▪ But there was more to it than coming out with the begging bowl because of a particular crisis.
Usage examples of "begging bowl".
He would be traveling alone and unarmed, carrying only his bindlestiff and begging bowl in addition to the relic and its illuminated replica.
He could think of nothing to give them except his golden begging bowl.
After a week, when the festival was near to its close, he departed into the town with his begging bowl, in the company of the other monks.
Brother Francis touched his begging bowl and made a gesture of helplessness, which brought only another scornful laugh from the robber.