make bricks without straw
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In the latter, you are often expected to make bricks without straw, but in the former, to grow lemons without a tree.
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After all, to build his air force Marshal Milch had to make bricks without straw.
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Like the rest of us, newspaper men cannot be expected to make bricks without straw.
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It is rather hard to make bricks without straw, and her supply of materials, mostly purloined from Beatrice's piece-box, was decidedly scanty.
From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley
You may even find yourself required to make bricks without straw.
From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis
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