Sentences with phrase «barely keep the roof over their heads»
Most shelters in today's world barely keep the roof over their heads.
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It is illegal, but honestly if I was on food stamps and had a choice between not being able to get to my McJob (that barely pays rent) and breaking the law (and going hungry half the month, but keeping a roof over my head) I would break the law, and you would see some guy buying expensive food for himself, while I, the actual recipient, stretch the bag of lentils from last month as far as I can.
It turns out that the local schoolteacher is fed up with holding classes in a ramshackle lean - to that barely keeps a roof over the students» heads.
For years, the bearded bohemian had barely been able to keep a roof over his head as a struggling street musician in San Francisco.
Since she barely speaks English, the desperate woman starts selling meat patties on the streets of Queens to keep a roof over their heads.