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by the sweat of your brow (literary)

if you earn the money that you use to live on by the sweat of your brow, you earn it yourself, by doing hard, often physical work. A decent, hard-working man, he supported his family by the sweat of his brow.

See also: sweat

knit your brows (literary)

to move your eyebrows (= the hair above your eyes) closer together when you are worried or thinking carefully. Sasha knitted her brows as she listened to the storm forecast.