live in digs

Had Becky got there before him, he wondered, even if she were only living in digs?

He's nearly forty-two, you know, and still living in digs!

Students will benefit: those living in digs or halls of residence will no longer have to pay anything.

Fancy, he was living in digs just over at Sewingbury, studying to be a solicitor with a very good firm.

In the meantime he was living in digs and trudging around estate agents in his spare time.

Many music hall performers, unable to find work, fell into poverty; some did not even have a home, having spent their working lives living in digs between performances.

Bet strikes out on her own at a young age, choosing a life of factory and bar work and living in digs in Weatherfield.

At the beginning of 1946, John had another reason for fretting; he had to change his lodgings and was living in digs that were 'too sordid' to write about.

Luckily I managed to get a job with a small fit-up touring company - playing small theatres in the provinces, living in digs, away from the spotlight and very badly paid.

It is easy to do with halls of residence, but it is also easy to do where students are living in digs or even when they are the owners of properties.

Determined to get on to the Bentley scheme, Charlotte's application to Bentley meant she had to leave her family home in Cambridgeshire and live in digs in Crewe.

Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier, and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances, a new relationship and living in digs.

During most of that period I lived in digs in Hatherley Road, Sidcup, a suburb of London not far from the office at Crayford in Kent where I was getting my staff of calculators together.

She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression, his work as an electrician in the mines, poverty, living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them.