sweated-out

Updated: May 6, 2025

All the workman had the whole day-and-a-half he was making the coat was a little tea. But sweaters' work is not so bad as government work after all. At that, we cannot make more than 4s. or 5s. a week altogether that is, counting the time we are running after it, of course. Government contract work is the worst of all, and the starved-out and sweated-out tailor's last resource.

Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography