"We were ready to knock on his door on our knees, cash in hand, asking for the keys," he said.
Now, in an awkward change of fortune, Mr. Raacke has come to the trustees with hat in hand, asking for emergency financing of $50,000.
But it did not really dawn on him how uncharted until that hockey fan approached him with pen in hand asking for a keepsake.
Amichai's father would chant exotic Aramaic words, feather still in hand, asking to be forgiven for any crumbs still lying around, potentially despoiling the kashrut — the purity and fitness — of the home.
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM AND GREEN DAY I told my high school intern that I was writing about punk music and, pen in hand, asked what new punk bands they listen to.
As the cute couple embraced and cried, all I could do was say to them, "Congratulations!" My quick-thinking daughter, camera in hand, asked if they would like a photo to remember this important occasion.
Misery loves company, and there would be no little joy on Wall Street if Goldman, having paid back the TARP money, was forced by some new crisis to go to Washington, hat in hand, asking for the money again.
And now, of course, low-tax and low-regulation Texas has come to the federal government, hat in hand, asking for more than $150 billion to rebuild its devastated state.
When Tynan returned to the matter in hand, asking Sartre if 'an author of extreme right-wing views could ever succeed in creating a work of art', he received a plain answer 'in my opinion, no'.
The reader, who approached me on the subway with a copy of "Barbarians at the Gate" in hand, asked, "If you wanted to get smart about business by reading your way through the summer, what would your master reading list look like?" I had to get off the subway before I was able to answer the question.
