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ask for
verb
- to try to obtain by requesting
he asked for help
- informal.intr to behave in a provocative manner that is regarded as inviting (trouble)
she's asking for trouble
you're asking for it
- to ask after
tell your parents I'm asking for them
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 .Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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