The most popular online dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English
go cap in hand to sb
Definition
(Definition of go cap in hand to sb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Making appeals & requests, but you might be interested in these topics from the Communication topic area:
- Admitting & confessing
- Announcing, informing & stating
- Answering & responding
- Assertions & asserting
- Codes & decoding
- Communicating & keeping in touch
- Debate & discussion
- Defining & explaining
- Describing & telling stories
- Exaggerating & playing down
- Gestures & gesturing
- Giving advice
- Giving orders & commands
- Informal talking & conversation
- Insults & abuse
- Interrupting & preventing from speaking
- Inviting & summoning
- Lecturing & addressing
- Making & accepting apologies
- Making & breaking promises & commitments
- Meaning & significance
- Meeting people
- Official meetings
- People who reveal secrets & tell tales
- Questioning people & asking questions in general
- Quoting & making references
- Remarks & remarking
- Revealing secrets & becoming known
- Saying & uttering
- Saying again
- Speakers & talkers
- Stressing & emphasizing
- Suggestions & proposals
- Suspecting & questioning
- Threats & warnings
- Topics & areas of interest
- Welcoming, greeting & greetings
- Written greetings
- Yes, no & not
Browse the Dictionary
-
go by phrasal verb
-
go by sth phrasal verb (BASE)
-
go by sth phrasal verb (FOLLOW)
-
go by the board idiom
-
go by the book/do sth by the book idiom
- go cap in hand to sb idiom
-
go commando idiom
-
go down (sth) phrasal verb (MOVE DOWN)
-
go down (sth) phrasal verb (REACH)
-
go down like a lead balloon idiom
-
go down on sb phrasal verb
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus: Making appeals & requests
Synonyms and related words:
- a cry for help idiom
- apply verb (REQUEST)
- ask for sb phrasal verb
- beseech verb
- besought verb
- bum verb
- cadge verb
- claim noun (DEMAND)
- claim verb (DEMAND)
- cri de coeur noun
- gateway noun
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- implore verb
- out with it! idiom
- petition noun
- petition verb
- put in for sth phrasal verb
- reapply verb (ASK)
- sponge verb (GET MONEY)
- tap sb for sth phrasal verb
Our dictionaries
Word of the Day
spurn
to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
