to earn one’s keep
- Fuente de la expresión
- Oxford University Press
- Estructura completa
- to earn one’s keep
- 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
- «Indignation that someone could buy their way into an elite university of the kind I dreamed of attending while the vast majority of us had no such means. And pride in knowing that I had been working hard to “make the grade” in public school and “earn my keep” in life by mowing lawns and mucking stalls from an early age. If I continued to diligently build my resume, surely I too could attend a top-tier university.»
- Fuente del contexto
- New Hampshire Bulletin
- Tipo de fuente
- Página web
- Autor
- Dan Weeks
- Título de la fuente
- Will America ever be meritocracy?
- Año
- 2023
- Web
- https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/07/13/will-america-ever-be-a-meritocracy/
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente