by the sweat of one's brow

By hard work, as in The only way he'll succeed is by the sweat of his brow. This figurative usage appears in the Bible (Genesis 31:9), where Adam's punishment for eating fruit in Eden is "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"-that is, he will have to work for his bread, or living. [c. 1600]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Timotha	TIM-ə-thə	English (Rare)
Fazl	-	Arabic
Natalia	nah-TAH-lyah (Polish, Italian, Spanish)	Polish, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Georgian, Late Roman
ŞEmsettİN	-	Turkish
Coen	KOON	Dutch
Josefina	ho-se-FEE-nah (Spanish), zhoo-zə-FEE-nə (Portuguese), yoo-se-FEE-nah (Swedish)	Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish