[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
«Freedom to go where one liked -- choice of Society & little of it. -- Conversation of clever men at clubs -- Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle. -- to have the expense & anxiety of children -- perhaps quarelling -- Loss of time. -- cannot read in the Evenings -- fatness & idleness -- Anxiety & responsibility -- less money for books &c -- if many children forced to gain one's bread. -- (But then it is very bad for ones health[19] to work too much)»
Fuente del contexto
The Atlantic
Tipo de fuente
Periódico
Autor
Maria Popova
Título de la fuente
'Better Than a Dog Anyhow': Tireless Romantic Charles Darwin on the Pros and Cons of Marriage