beg for one's life
verbDefinitions
To plead or make a desperate attempt to continue with what one has been doing.
- We, who clung to the coat-tails of foreigners, begging for their scraps, begging for our lives— we have remaining to us this one final degradation.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beg, life.
- But he abandoned all dignity when he begged for his life.
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