Definition of "ask for it" []

• Used other than as an idiom: see ask for,‎ it. (verb)
• To provoke an unwanted action. (verb)

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• "And the meal itself: big American-size portions of steak, potatoes, creamed spinach, and the house specialty, macaroni and cheese, an “off the menu” dish made one late evening a hundred seasons ago for a famished Humphrey Bogart and available to those “in the know” enough to ask for it except those “in the know” had stopped coming years ago."
• "There's not a clergyman in Ireland stauncher to them than he has been, and now they've given the deanery of Kilfenora to a man that never had a father, though I condescended to ask for it for my cousin."
• "I asked the price of a good house and about 40 acres of land, and they said the most they could ask for it would be L30, a cheap place to settle, for provisions also are cheaper than anywhere I have been."