live from day to day
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The friar writes back: “Leonardo’s life is extremely irregular and haphazard, and he seems to live from day to day.… He devotes much of his time to geometry, and has no fondness at all for the paintbrush.”
From Literature
Just as Jesus brought his message “to those struggling to live from day to day”, he said, people today should care for those most in need on the fringes of society.
From Reuters
Tanzania is a poor country and people live from day to day and earn the little money they will need to buy food.
From The Guardian
The lockdown is catastrophic for the poor in India who live from day to day.
From The Guardian
“Those who live from day to day immersed in pleasures see their reasons for living completed every day,” he wrote, “whereas those who think of posterity and prolong the period for which they will be remembered through their work, for them death is always sudden since it interrupts something before it’s finished.”
From New York Times
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