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beg, borrow, or steal
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Idioms and Phrases
Obtain by any possible means, as in You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal tickets to the Olympics . This term is often used in the negative, to describe something that cannot be obtained; Chaucer used it in The Tale of the Man of Law . [Late 1300s]Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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