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live off the backs of

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live off the backs of somebody
to use what other people produce in order to live, without giving them anything in exchange He was one of the wealthiest dictators of all time and he lived off the backs of the people.
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`I told him I could not live off the backs of the workers and that I wanted to create a union to protect the rights of the weakest.
 
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