"Live on the smell of an oily rag” nghĩa là gì?

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The guys we get in from Vanuatu, they arrive, they work hard, live on the smell of an oily rag, and save all their money to take home with them.

The grassfed cattle industry is a major component (hợp thành) of Australia’s $72.5 billion per year red meat industry, but is overseen by a representative and policy setting body that by comparison lives on the smell of an oily rag, with an operating budget of a just a couple of million dollars annually.

Clubs live on the smell of an oily rag face tough times as coronavirus hits community sport. Read the daily sport headlines – or at least those that exist in this time of competitive dormancy – and one could be excused for thinking the only athletes affected by the coronavirus-induced halt (tạm dừng lại) to activity are professionals.

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