[make, earn] a living, [earn] a crust, bring home the bacon, make some dough, earn one’s [keep, salt, corn, bread and butter], [make, earn, gain] one’s [daily] bread, earn one’s [bread, living] by the sweat of one’s brow
Contexto
«“In 1776, North Carolina’s framers adopted the state’s first constitution — and with it, the state’s first protections for the inalienable right to earn a living,” Windham said. “Those protections were originally housed in the state’s law of the land clause. But sadly, they applied only to ‘freem[e]n.’”»
Fuente del contexto
The Carolina Journal
Tipo de fuente
Periódico
Autor
Mitch Kokai
Título de la fuente
Court battles highlight North Carolinians’ right to earn a living