Read the following excerpt from "i sell a dog" by mark twain: twenty-four dollars a week would really have been riches to us if we hadn't had to support that jug; because of the jug we were always sailing pretty close to the wind. What is the role of the idiom in this sentence?.

Julia went to work for a reputed company. under pressure from upper management to cut costs, she directed line employees to ignore some safety precautions, which increased productivity. which argument of institutional anomie theory does this support? businesses set effective moral examples. businesses resort to illegal means to earn profits. businesses focus on public welfare. businesses fairly distribute profits. businesses employ only legal means to earn profits.