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ask for

verb

  1. to try to obtain by requesting

    he asked for help

  2. informal.
    intr to behave in a provocative manner that is regarded as inviting (trouble)

    she's asking for trouble

    you're asking for it

  3. to ask after

    tell your parents I'm asking for them

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, ask for it . To persist in an action despite the likelihood that it will bring trouble on oneself, as in Speeding as much as he does, he has been asking for a ticket and Mary deserved that low grade; in effect, she asked for it by not studying . [c. 1900] Also see ask for the moon .
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You have to imprison them, so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism.

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They're not saying the thing because they're out knocking on the corporate PACs doors to ask for the money, which keeps them from saying the thing.

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The Seagulls beat Newcastle at St James' Park earlier in the season too, but that was before Eddie Howe's side hit their stride, and it is a big ask for Brighton to repeat that result.

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Prosecutors allege that Woodbury asked for more wine and exposed himself a second time after he was told he could have only a nonalcoholic beverage.

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However, a sheriff’s department spokeswoman said detectives on the case were never “asked for additional information or testing on the case by the D.A.’s office.”

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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