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单词 to work the panhandle
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to work the panhandle
2. U.S. slang. The action or an act of begging. Esp. in to work the panhandle: to beg. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > begging > act or instance of
beg1814
panhandle1894
stem1914
1894 Harper's Weekly 5 May 429/2 ‘Workin' the pan-handle.’ ‘Eh?’ ‘I mean, are you beggin'?’
1900 G. Ade More Fables 142 He usually found some one waiting on the Door-Step to give him the Sign of Distress and work the fraternal Pan-Handle on him.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §486/2 A solicitation,..panhandle.
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