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“When the north wind's howlin', even the fat hog feels thin.”
Ukraine faces its toughest winter since Russia's full-scale invasion, a UN official told the BBC.
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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.