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Phrase(s): plead for something
to beg for something. • I don’t want to have to plead for what’s already mine. • The children were pleading for ice cream, so we got some for them., Phrase(s): plead for someone
to beg for someone to be spared. • Tom pleaded for Dave, but it was no use. Dave was found guilty. • She pleaded for her husband, but the judge sentenced him to ten years in prison.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs