英语词汇“sing for one's supper”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sing for one's supper

Earn a favour or benefit by providing a service in return: the cruise lecturers are academics singing for their supper...

But I sometimes wonder what it would be like to just be a normal guest, rather than someone who sings for their supper.
Though ostensibly a study of contemporary trends, the programme relied almost exclusively on picturesque images from the long-gone era of horse-drawn wagons, roadside tinsmithery and jolly beggarmen singing for their supper.
Reason is I'm doing a bit of network support for a friend while I'm there - singing for my supper, as it were.

See parent entry: supper

单词	sing for one's supper
释义	sing for one's supper Earn a favour or benefit by providing a service in return: the cruise lecturers are academics singing for their supper... But I sometimes wonder what it would be like to just be a normal guest, rather than someone who sings for their supper. Though ostensibly a study of contemporary trends, the programme relied almost exclusively on picturesque images from the long-gone era of horse-drawn wagons, roadside tinsmithery and jolly beggarmen singing for their supper. Reason is I'm doing a bit of network support for a friend while I'm there - singing for my supper, as it were. See parent entry: supper
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