[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
«A new Coldplay album. When, all too frequently, people say how great it must be to earn one’s corn writing about music, it’s hard to disabuse them of that opinion. Of course it’s great!