earn one's crust

English

Alternative forms
  • earn a crust

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earn one's crust

  1. (Britain, idiomatic) To earn money, to do something as a job.
    • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)
      Their substitutes featured two players from League One clubs and Miller, who earns his crust these days with Vancouver Whitecaps.

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