Hard TimesOne worth keeping
“When oats run high, even the strongest horse stays put.”
Diesel at an all-time high means a lot of idle teams that once worked sunup to sundown.
In the same vein
All Hard Times →A tough job that only gets done one painful foot at a time.
Fend for yourself, because nobody's coming to feed you.
Can't take from someone what they simply don't have.
Life alternates between hitting and being hit.
Everything's going wrong in both directions at once.
Fix it, stretch it, or learn to live with the hole.