beggar

person

collective noun

Cockney Rhyming Slang

begging

credit card

homelessness

homeless

drugs

is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

is too often dismissed as someone in need of help on account of his chutzpa in asking for it.

Don't use the chutzpa of a beggar as an excuse for not helping him. Rabbi Shmelke of Nickelsburg

is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand, but he is despised because, in our society where money is the grand test of virtue, he has made the mistake of having chosen a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour... he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

is a pest unkindly inflicted on the suffering rich.

A pest unkindly inflicted on the suffering rich

is a self-employed outdoor monetary solicitor.

A beggar is grateful as long as his mouth is wet.

is of such poor luck that when it rains porridge, he has no spoon.

When it rains porridge the beggar has no spoon.

beggar, n.All

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