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The thing you call 'just a job' until someone threatens to take it away.
means The work or income that supports you and keeps you fed, housed, and afloat.
from From Old English *lifl?d*, a fusion of *lif* (life) and *l?d* (course, way, journey) — literally a 'life-course' or way of living. The ending drifted over time until folk pronunciation reshaped it to end in '-hood,' as if it belonged with words like childhood or neighborhood — a bit of linguistic misdirection, since the '-hood' here is accidental, not the suffix meaning 'state of being.'
- root meaning
- old english for life plus course or way
- not salary
- means your means, not your paycheck
- common usage
- mostly invoked right before losing one
- fisherman test
- the word that still makes sense without an office