hewers of wood and drawers of water
Americanplural noun
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Said he: "We cannot and will not remain merely hewers of wood and drawers of water."
From Time Magazine Archive
We've always been hewers of wood and drawers of water.
From Time Magazine Archive
By such means, they hoped, the brain of France would control the body, the rural population inevitably taking the position of hewers of wood and drawers of water, both in a political and material sense.
From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose
These he compelled to be his hewers of wood and drawers of water.
From Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
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