can't call one's soul one's own

can't call (one's) soul (one's) own

Spends most of one's time working for others. Now that I've started working overtime four days a week, I really can't call my soul my own.See also: call, own, soul

can't call one's soul one's own

To be very much in debt or bondage to another; to have lost one’s independence. This turn of phrase dates from the sixteenth century and has been repeated ever since. In Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop (1841, Chapter 4), “She daren’t call her soul her own” is said of Mrs. Quilp, wife of the tyrannical dwarf, Daniel.See also: call, own, soul

单词	can't call one's soul one's own
释义	can't call one's soul one's own can't call (one's) soul (one's) own Spends most of one's time working for others. Now that I've started working overtime four days a week, I really can't call my soul my own.See also: call, own, soul can't call one's soul one's own To be very much in debt or bondage to another; to have lost one’s independence. This turn of phrase dates from the sixteenth century and has been repeated ever since. In Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop (1841, Chapter 4), “She daren’t call her soul her own” is said of Mrs. Quilp, wife of the tyrannical dwarf, Daniel.See also: call, own, soul
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