Hungary has already had to go cap in hand to the IMF for a loan.
For less sanguine investors, the idea of going cap in hand to China smacked of desperation.
They enjoy being seen as a person of substance and status, and prefer to be in a position to help others rather than approaching them cap in hand.
All pensions should be at or above subsistence level. Retired workers should not have to go cap in hand to ask for supplementary allowances.
He went cap in hand to the boss and asked for work.
They would have to go cap in hand to America for help, and Washington could dictate its own terms.
He went cap in hand to the teacher.
A side door was opened, and the gardener, a tall, dry fellow, made his appearance, cap in hand.
He stood before his father with cap in hand.
That would look too much like declaring defeat and going cap in hand to America's regional enemies, Iran and Syria, to sue for peace.
Circumstances once forced him to go cap in hand to the boss for help .
The mender of roads, blue cap in hand, wiped his swarthy forehead with it, and said, 'Where shall I commence, monsieur?'
