What? We already give our whole paychecks to our landlords. How could we possibly give them more?
If landlords aren’t happy with the rent they receive, they need to get a real job and work their asses off every day all day long like everybody else does.
Yeah I gathered it was satire, but the mere thought of it made me jump straight to interpreting it as reality because I wouldn’t be surprised if some landlords do feel that way!
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/brass-neck
brass neck
noun [ S or U ]
UK informal disapproving
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/ˌbrɑːs ˈnek/ us
/ˌbræs ˈnek/
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a type of behaviour where someone is extremely confident about their own actions but does not understand that their behaviour is unacceptable to others:
She's got a brass neck to ask for a day off when we're so busy.