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单词 by one's fingers' ends
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by one's fingers' ends
P5. by one's fingers' ends: by manual labour or hard work. Esp. in to live by one's fingers' ends. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > work > [adverb] > manually
manuallyc1475
handily1611
by one's fingers' ends1618
1618 H. Fitzgeffrey Certain Elegies sig. C3v All he spends, He getteth brauely by his Fingers ends.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 51 Thousands..liue singular well by their fingers ends.
1680 R. L'Estrange Discov. upon Discov. 17 Pray'e advise him..to be modest, and Temperate, and not to bear so hard upon a poor decayed Gentleman..that lives by his Fingers End.
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