to earn a living
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- to earn a living
- Variantes
- [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
- Año
- 2024
- Web
- https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/court-battles-highlight-north-carolinians-right-to-earn-a-living/
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Estándar
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente