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make a living
Idioms and Phrases
Earn enough to support oneself, as in Can he make a living as a freelance trumpeter? This term was first recorded in 1632.Example Sentences
So, he resolved to ignore Hollywood and make a living on the stage.
Ultimately, we don't have a unified front where everybody's on the same page about saying, “Hey, wait a second. We're all trying to make a living here. We're all trying to get by, irrespective of race, irrespective of gender and sexual orientation. We're all trying to make a living. Why is it so hard for all of us to make a living?â€
“I was sitting there in the jungle with every bug, snake and crocodile, thinking there had to be a better way to make a living. That’s when I started thinking: urban jungle.â€
Youth unemployment is at crisis levels in Uganda, and there are many like Mr Prince who often risk their health and abandon their dreams just to make a living.
“Occasionally something breaks through, people see it, people like it, their lives are changed by an infinitesimal degree. … If you’re really lucky you can make a living looking at all this and making some sense of it and communicating it to others.â€
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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