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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread eke out/ earn for/ strive for #95762 02/16/2003 3:02 AM Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 20 suededevil stranger suededevil stranger Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 20 I read Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah lately has here anyhere ever read this book?it's a nice bk well i'm just questioned by the words from this bk "Eke out livings" , "Earn for livings" can we say "strive for livings"? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eke out/ earn for/ strive for #95763 02/16/2003 4:33 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Hi suededevil, and welcome to the board! "Eke out a living" means to make very little money, just enough to barely pay the bills, and usually not with a very secure employment. Maybe small jobs here and there. "Earn a living" implies more of a steady, comfortable employment and income situation. If you "earn a living' you are usually doing okay financially. "Strive for a living" would seem to imply more of an awkward situation than "eke out a living", since if you're striving for a living you're struggling to achieve a level where you're ekeing out or earning a living. But some folks who have steady work may not consider themselves to be living a solid , comfortable lifestyle on the money they earn, and might say they are striving to earn a real living. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eke out/ earn for/ strive for #95764 02/16/2003 2:26 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Exactly! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eke out/ earn for/ strive for #95765 02/17/2003 7:08 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago Although "eke out" immediately brings a finacial situation to the table, "strive for" *allows for a different perception. Are all of the contexts "financial" in that book, suededevil? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eke out/ earn for/ strive for #95766 02/18/2003 6:30 AM Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 20 suededevil stranger suededevil stranger Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 20 Well it just mentioned that the women's financial condition was hit at a glimpse she lost her job and yearned for some money Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eke out/ earn for/ strive for #95767 02/18/2003 2:58 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago ...hit at a glimpse That's a new one on me. Does this mean "you were given a quick review and it didn't look *good"? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eke out/ earn for/ strive for #95768 02/18/2003 3:26 PM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK ...hit at a glimpse That's a new one on me. C'est un coup d'oeil, n'est pas? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: eke out/ earn for/ strive for #95769 02/18/2003 3:37 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 My favorite usage of "strive" is in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints!---I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!---and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Por que no Yago sangria? #95770 02/18/2003 3:41 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago C'est un coup d'oeil, n'est pas? Say what? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Por que no Yago sangria? #95771 02/18/2003 3:54 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Coup d'OEil (French). A view; glance; prospect; effect of things in the mass. These principles are presented at a single coup d'oeil. The coup d'oeil was grand in the extreme. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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