"at rack and manger" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "at rack and manger (not comparable)",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1742, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North […] :",
          "text": "At that Time, his Lordship took his Brother into his Family, and a Coach and Servants aſſign'd him out of his Equipages; and all at Rack and Manger, requiring only 200 l. a Year",
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          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):",
          "text": "tearing out the bowels of St. Edmundsbury Convent (its larders namely and cellars) in the most ruinous way, by living at rack and manger there.",
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          "ref": "1859, Henry Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair:",
          "text": "For we are not as other hypocrites, reprobates, and enemies of the state, but unto us thou hast given, from them thou hast taken, (blessed be thy name A Lard) they are at rack and manger, but we are at full meal",
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        "plentifully and at another's expense."
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        "(idiomatic, archaic) plentifully and at another's expense."
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  "word": "at rack and manger"
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          "ref": "1742, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North […] :",
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          "text": "tearing out the bowels of St. Edmundsbury Convent (its larders namely and cellars) in the most ruinous way, by living at rack and manger there.",
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          "text": "For we are not as other hypocrites, reprobates, and enemies of the state, but unto us thou hast given, from them thou hast taken, (blessed be thy name A Lard) they are at rack and manger, but we are at full meal",
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        "plentifully and at another's expense."
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        "(idiomatic, archaic) plentifully and at another's expense."
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