throw oneself on someone's mercy

throw oneself on someone's mercy (third-person singular simple present throws oneself on someone's mercy, present participle throwing oneself on someone's mercy, simple past threw oneself on someone's mercy, past participle thrown oneself on someone's mercy)

1. To put oneself in a situation where someone else is in a position to rescue or forgive one.

• “throw oneself on someone's mercy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “throw oneself on someone's mercy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “throw yourself on somebody s mercy” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.