Qin: Now, young man, don't you think it's about time we raised the rent a bit?The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won't even pay my tea!
Family, place. For what?A lifetime of dudgery on a pittance?A child every year and no means to lighten the load?
Rodrigo, an engineer in a small town in central Cuba surrounded by cane fields, says there is no point in practising his profession for a pittance.
The peasant laboured for a mere pittance.
In some regions, such as Africa, the exploitation—the extraction of natural resources and the rape of the environment, all in return for a pittance—was obvious.
Members of Congress are grumbling. Europe is crying foul. African workers, near starving even in the good times, are in danger of losing the pittance they make sewing shirts and skivvies.
People, usually migrants from rural areas and jobless citizens, are hired to queue up for different types of tickets in large cities in return for a pittance, they are called hired queuers.
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