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vb. (present participle of make a living English)
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Making a Living (also known as Doing His Best, A Busted Johnny, Troubles and Take My Picture) is the first film starring Charlie Chaplin. It premiered on February 2, 1914. Chaplin plays Edgar English, a lady-charming swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops. It was written and directed by Henry Lehrman.
Usage examples of "making a living".
They worried that robots would take jobs--and the means of making a living--from humans.
I would chafe under the restriction-probably find another way of making a living-and so would most of the writ- e ers I know.
He hoped to find some new method of making a living and aspired to become a professional breeder of ferrets.
I was sorry to think it of my own brother, but I feared his thoughts had turned to easier ways of making a living than as an apprentice in a tile factory.
If you think there is anybody in the detective business making a living doing that sort of thing, you don't know much about cops.
In such cities as Sutton there are few patients who can afford to pay a fee to both doctor and chemist, so that unless the physician is prepared to play the part of both he will have little chance of making a living at either.
Those making a living off the tourist industry by day or night were briefed to keep their eyes open.
Well, Wolff wasn't going to all the labor and pains and time of making a living, breathing, thinking green Martian or red Zodangan just so Kickaha could run him through with a sword.
Well, Wolff wasn't going to all the labor and pains and time of making a living, breathing, thinking green Martian or red Zodan-gan just so Kickaha could run him through with a sword.
This isn't exactly Coruscant when it comes to ships and traveling and making a living.
There are some ways of making a living, however, which have such high visibility that their practitioners become household names.
New ways of making a living, new ways of committing a crime, suddenly sprang up--and often it was hard to tell one from the other.
Still, you can see that there was nothing in that financial record to lead me to think that writing was a possible way of making a living - especially since I had no dream of ever writing anything but magazine science fiction.