tap sb for sth
old-fashioned informal— phrasal verb with tap uk/tæp/us/tæp/verb -pp-
to get money from someone:
I might be able to tap my father for a loan.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- implore
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
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