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- earn (one's) crust
earn (one's) crust
earn (one's) crust
To do work of any kind for a living; to earn money by some means. No, working in a canning factory isn't exactly glamorous, but I've got to earn my crust somehow. I hear Janet is earning her crust with an investment firm in Tokyo now.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Abiram | | ə-BIE-rəm (English) | Biblical |
| Soma | | SO-maw | Hungarian |
| Acre | | ['eikə] | |
| Dunja | | DOO-nyah (Serbian, Croatian) | Serbian, Croatian, Slovene |
| Giuliano | | joo-LYAH-no | Italian |
| Kinneret | | - | Hebrew |