to earn one’s bread by the sweat of one’s brow
- Fuente de la expresión
- Collins Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- to earn one’s bread by the sweat of one’s brow
- 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
- «It may lead to GDP growth and record profits, but economic growth and record profits will not, on their own, lead to the creation of dignified work. And it fails to recognize what St. John Paul II did, that “the obligation to earn one’s bread by the sweat of one’s brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified.”»
- Fuente del contexto
- Public Discourse
- Tipo de fuente
- Periódico
- Autor
- Senator Marco Rubio
- Título de la fuente
- Common Good Capitalism and the Dignity of Work
- Año
- 2019
- Web
- https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/11/58194/
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente