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go begging
To be available for one to take or claim. If that cake is going begging, I'll take a few pieces home with me. We can't let these antiques from Aunt Judy go begging—here, take a vintage lamp.
go begging
Fig. to be left over, unwanted, or unused. (As if a thing were begging for an owner or a user.) There is still food left. A whole lobster is going begging. Please eat some more, There are many excellent books in the library just going begging because people don't know they are there.
go begging
to be available Good jobs still go begging in the health care and teaching fields.
go begging
Be in little or no demand, as in At this time of year barrels of apples go begging. [Late 1500s]