to gain one’s bread
- Fuente de la expresión
- Página web
- Estructura completa
- to gain one’s bread
- 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
- «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
- Año
- 2012
- Web
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/08/better-than-a-dog-anyhow-tireless-romantic-charles-darwin-on-the-pros-and-cons-of-marriage/261197/
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente