live by your wits

Meaning

1. to earn money by clever or sometimes dishonest means

From the same entry

• live and breathe
• live and let live
• live hand to mouth
• live in the past
• live in sin
• live it up
• live a lie
• live off the fat of the land
• live off the land
• live to fight another day
• you haven't lived
• you live and learn