"earn one's crust" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "earns one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earning one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earned one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earned one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earnt one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earnt one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "past2": "earnt one's crust"
      },
      "expansion": "earn one's crust (third-person singular simple present earns one's crust, present participle earning one's crust, simple past and past participle earned one's crust or earnt one's crust)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:",
          "text": "Their substitutes featured two players from League One clubs and Miller, who earns his crust these days with Vancouver Whitecaps.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To earn money, to do something as a job."
      ],
      "id": "en-earn_one's_crust-en-verb-9Kpo-cYi",
      "links": [
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, idiomatic) To earn money, to do something as a job."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "make a living"
        },
        {
          "word": "earn a crust"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "earn one's crust"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "earns one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earning one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earned one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earned one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earnt one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "earnt one's crust",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "past2": "earnt one's crust"
      },
      "expansion": "earn one's crust (third-person singular simple present earns one's crust, present participle earning one's crust, simple past and past participle earned one's crust or earnt one's crust)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:",
          "text": "Their substitutes featured two players from League One clubs and Miller, who earns his crust these days with Vancouver Whitecaps.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To earn money, to do something as a job."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, idiomatic) To earn money, to do something as a job."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "make a living"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "earn a crust"
    }
  ],
  "word": "earn one's crust"
}