| 单词 | to cut one's own grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut one's own grass ΘΚΠ 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 liveeOE get?1529 to earn (also get, make, etc.) a (also one's) living1632 to cut one's own grass1863 1863 J. Greenwood Curiosities Savage Life iii. xi. 263 They [sc. additional wives] are sources of wealth. Not only do they ‘cut their own grass’, as the vulgar Yankee saying is, but make hay..for their lord and master. 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 242 ‘Cut her own grass!..what is that?’.. ‘Why, purvide her own chump—earn her own living.’ 1894 North-eastern Daily Gaz. 11 Sept. It is a maxim with such parents as theirs that, as soon as a boy has grown too big for knickerbockers, he is capable of ‘cutting his own grass’, or in other words, of earning enough for his own keep. < as lemmas |
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