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The unglamorous tax of being alive, due daily, never paid in full.
means Small, recurring, necessary tasks of running a household that nobody enjoys but everybody must do.
from From the Old English cerr, a turn or piece of work, drifting through dialect chare into the American chore by the 1700s.
Same rootCharwoman, the cleaner, shares the word's origin.
Never doneBy design they recur, so completion is temporary.
Allowance linkAmerican parents wedded chores to kids' pay early.