Idiom
beg for one's life
Meaning
To plead or make a desperate attempt to continue with what one has been doing.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The mouse ran and begged for its life.”
“The villain cornered the spy, who began to beg for his life in a desperate attempt to escape.”
“Faced with the inevitable consequences of his betrayal, the disgraced official fell to his knees and begged for his life before the king.”
Examples
simple
“The mouse ran and begged for its life.”
contextual
“The villain cornered the spy, who began to beg for his life in a desperate attempt to escape.”
complex
“Faced with the inevitable consequences of his betrayal, the disgraced official fell to his knees and begged for his life before the king.”
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