crust = living (n)
Example: "What do you do for a crust?" "I'm a brickie."
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My guess the origin for this is that "crust" is related to "bread" as "bread" is a synonym for "money" (for example: "breadwinner" = main money earner in the household). We can also call money, often cash, "dough".
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