begging bowl
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbegging bowlˈbegging ˌbowl noun [countable] 1 used to talk about a request for money made by an organization or country Arts and theatre groups are constantly thrusting the begging bowl at the government.2 a container that a beggar holds out to people for moneyExamples from the Corpusbegging bowl• As a school we did not want to be seen as constantly rolling out the begging bowl.• But there was more to it than coming out with the begging bowl because of a particular crisis.