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keep the wolf from ones door |
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To ward off poverty or hunger: The job wont provide him with any luxuries, but it should keep the wolf from his door. | 1 |
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| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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