CLASS 10
NELSON MANDELA LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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earning things to keep
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keeping what I earn
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getting a good salary
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performing sufficient work or help in exchange for money
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Detailed explanation-1: -Work well enough to deserve what one is paid, as in Get a job-it’s time you earned your keep, or With that batting average he’s not worth his salt. The keep in this phrase refers to “room and board, ” which in former times sometimes constituted the only reward for working (on a farm, in a home, etc.).
Detailed explanation-2: -: to earn what is needed to support oneself. He will do anything to earn his keep.
Detailed explanation-3: -synonyms for earn one’s keep back. encourage. finance. fund. maintain.
Detailed explanation-4: -transitive verb. : to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered. : to bring in by way of return. bonds earning 10 percent interest. : to come to be duly worthy of or entitled or suited to.
Detailed explanation-5: -: to do something which shows that one deserves to be accepted and respected by the other people in a field or profession. She has yet to earn her stripes as a reporter.