According to the identification of older documents, widespread bad habit of beggars to pretend to be mutes. They approached their victims by shaking them with a small bell (a resonating metallic device that gives off a reverberating sound when shaking). From there in a figurative sense sometimes said today of soliciting donations (fundraising activities) especially on the part of political parties. – See distance money, begging money, barrel organ money, nuisance value, music money, sparing money.
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