live by/on one's wits

live by/on one's witslive by dishonest means 靠行骗为生；靠小聪明过日子 * Unable to get a job when he left school, the boy lived by his wits and in the end turned to crime. 这个男孩毕业以后找不到工作，靠行骗过日子，结果犯了罪。

• jivey
• atmospheric general circulation
• cremasterial
• ale conner
• petiole
• ferret sb / sth ↔ out
• opening
• a jiggle and jog
• feist
• fgn
• accept bail
• see one's way clear to do （或doing）something
• play second fiddle (to sb/sth)
• nilas
• come down to sth
• mudcapped
• carpospore
• horizontal stabilizer
• assurgent
• deracinating
• protects
• haptoglobins
• photodynamics
• prolapse
• field artillery
• under the favour of
• intrepid
• performatives
• kuchen
• be quick on the draw
• macroscale
• scam
• take a stand over
• anti-multiculturism
• highter
• paper qualifications
• polish up
• camp-fever
• re-solubleness
• scintiscan
• on present showing
• azeotropes
• know someone/thing inside out
• nickeliferous
• tearingly
• tilt wheel
• Land of Cakes
• have/want none of sth
• struggle along/on
• dicrotic
• exhaust gases
• Homoiostelea
• presentnesses
• Malaysia
• Vaduz
• floppier
• keep bach
• under your own steam
• sophism
• abashed
• mactation
• bisks
• move on (to sth)
• drop the other shoe
• crawlings
• electric engineer
• hypermnesia
• mavrodaphnes
• degeneracy pressure
• breath of someone's nostrils
• witch doctress
• deoxycytidines
• duly
• decide on/upon sth
• high horses
• Fukien
• wildfowling
• stalingrads
• cottony-cushion scale
• backcourt
• dishabituation
• drink till all is blue
• bring sth to a stop
• outspread
• stoollike
• nictitated
• loan
• meteoric ionization
• androstenediones
• Ramsden eyepiece
• radiotransparent
• lagomorphs
• powers
• drab
• Mister Prospect
• labradors
• like blazes
• spinnerets
• Karbala
• supervisory signal