pick up one's crumbs
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[edit]Verb
[edit]pick up one's crumbs (third-person singular simple present picks up one's crumbs, present participle picking up one's crumbs, simple past and past participle picked up one's crumbs)
- (slang, archaic) To recuperate or recover, such as after an illness or injury.
- 1834, Richard Henry Dana, (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- The latter, however, had "picked up his crumbs," was learning his duty, and getting strength and confidence daily; and began to assert his rights against his oppressor.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary