Meanings
- idiomaticAvailable for someone to have something just by asking for it, i.e., without any significant effort or outlay; freely.
All you have to do is go to the interview. The job is yours for the asking.
1 more example
[…] he [Mavji Dave] said: ' […] I would far rather that you sent him to England. My son Kevalram says it is very easy to become a barrister. In three years' time he will return. Also expenses will not exceed four to five thousand rupees. Think of that barrister who has just come back from England. How stylishly he lives! He could get the Diwanship for the asking. I would strongly advise you to send Mohandas to England this very year. Kevalram has numerous friends in England. He will give notes of introduction to them, and Mohandas will have an easy time of it there.'
1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbon the occasion of a request
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Hungarian csak egy szavába kerül, csak kérnie kell
- csak egy szavába kerülavailable for someone to have something just by asking for it, i.e., without any significant effort or outlay; freely
- csak kérnie kellavailable for someone to have something just by asking for it, i.e., without any significant effort or outlay; freely
Cite this entry
for the asking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/for%20the%20asking
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