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If you won't WORK you shan't eat
With allusion to 2
THESSALONIANS
iii. 10(AV) If any would not work, neither should he eat.
c
1535
Satire of Three Estates
(EETS) 475
Qui non laborat, non manducet …
Quha labouris nocht he sall not eit.
1624
General Hist. Virginia
III
. x.
He that will not worke shall not eate.
1891
Life's Handicap
362
If you won't work you shan't eat …You're a wild elephant, and no educated animal at all. Go back to your jungle.
1938
Circus is Coming
v.
Proper termagent she was, bless her. ‘Them as can't work can't eat,’ she always said.
1981
Ironmaster
xx.
I say them as don't work shan't eat.
idleness
;
work
THESSALONIANS
iii. 10(AV) If any would not work, neither should he eat.
c1535
Satire of Three Estates
(EETS) 475
Qui non laborat, non manducet …
Quha labouris nocht he sall not eit.
1624
General Hist. Virginia
III
. x.
He that will not worke shall not eate.
1891
Life's Handicap
362
If you won't work you shan't eat …You're a wild elephant, and no educated animal at all. Go back to your jungle.
1938
Circus is Coming
v.
Proper termagent she was, bless her. ‘Them as can't work can't eat,’ she always said.
1981
Ironmaster
xx.
I say them as don't work shan't eat.
idleness;
work
work
see also (noun)
the DEVIL finds work for idle hands to do
;
the END crowns the work
;
the EYE of a master does more work than both his hands
;
FOOLS and bairns should never see half-done work
;
if IFS and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
;
MANY hands make light work
;
a WOMAN'S work is never done
; (verb)
TIME works wonders
.
the DEVIL finds work for idle hands to do
;
the END crowns the work
;
the EYE of a master does more work than both his hands
;
FOOLS and bairns should never see half-done work
;
if IFS and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
;
MANY hands make light work
;
a WOMAN'S work is never done
; (verb)
TIME works wonders
.
world
see
it takes ALL sorts to make a world
;
all's for the BEST in the best of all possible worlds
;
BETTER be out of the world than out of the fashion
;
GOD'S in his heaven, all's right with the world
;
one HALF of the world does not know how the other half lives
;
the HAND that rocks the cradle rules the world
;
LAUGH and the world laughs with you
;
a LIE is halfway round the world
;
LOVE makes the world go round
.
it takes ALL sorts to make a world
;
all's for the BEST in the best of all possible worlds
;
BETTER be out of the world than out of the fashion
;
GOD'S in his heaven, all's right with the world
;
one HALF of the world does not know how the other half lives
;
the HAND that rocks the cradle rules the world
;
LAUGH and the world laughs with you
;
a LIE is halfway round the world
;
LOVE makes the world go round
.
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