figurative. To struggle to make money, to ‘scrape’. Also transitive to scrape up (money). Now dialect exc. transferred: to scratch for oneself…
| 单词 | θ220993 |
| 释义 | society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > earn one's living > struggle to (3) scratch1509 figurative. To struggle to make money, to ‘scrape’. Also transitive to scrape up (money). Now dialect exc. transferred: to scratch for oneself… scrape1552 absol. and intransitive. To hoard up penuriously; to save or economize; to gather together money, etc. with labour and difficulty. Now chiefly dialect… scrat1579 intransitive (figurative of 4). To struggle to make a living or to gain money: scratch, v. 5. |
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