Hard TimesOne worth keeping
“When the well runs dry, folks find out who was really carryin' the water.”
Families are learnin' just how much they leaned on the Haitian caregivers now that they're gone.
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.