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cap in hand



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see under hat in hand .
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Sir Ed is also expected to accuse Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch of wanting to go "cap in hand" to President-elect Trump and "beg for whatever trade deal he'll give us".

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Speaking before him, deputy leader Angela Rayner said councils had been forced to go "cap in hand" to government to fund schemes, likening Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove to an investor on TV show Dragons' Den.

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"I've had to go cap in hand to friends, which is really degrading, but you have no choice," she said.

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"There's an etiquette at these award shows and because we never came with cap in hand we got a wee bit of backlash. People said, 'Oh, they weren't smiling,' as if we were being ungrateful," said singer Alloysious Massaquoi.

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“We stand here cap in hand,†he said earlier this year.

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