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词汇 bread
释义
bread
Theme: MONEY
n. money.
I need to get some bread to live on.You got any bread you can spare?
bread
noun
1
money. The term was used at least as early as the 1930s, but it did not gain wide acceptance until the 1960s US, 1935.
2
ship's biscuits TRISTAN DA CUNHA, 1910
idiombreadsb's bread and butter1 the way that someone earns most of their money:Small jobs like oil changes are the garage owner's bread and butter.The young dance crowd - the club's bread and butter - will roll in after 11:00.2 (also the bread and butter of) the most basic and usual parts of a job, profession, or situation:Boring technical analysis seems to be the bread and butter of sports writing these days.Neighborhood issues are the bread and butter of every local politician.bread-and-butter: Their bread-and-butter product is a database program for small businesses. —compare the meat and potatoes of sthbreak bread with sbold-fashioned to show that you are friendly with a person or group by eating a meal with them:Malloy urged the boys to break bread with kids that were not part of their usual group of friends.cast your bread upon the watersto take a risk without expecting to get any advantage from it:Meeting Felicity here was a surprise; he'd cast his bread upon the waters, and now it was coming back to him.
Note This idiom comes from a line in the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible.
earn your breadto earn the money that you need in order to live:Myra earns her bread making expensive hand-knitted sweaters for tourists, and doing temporary work of various kinds.We started our library just hoping we could earn our bread from it - we had no idea it would become one of the largest collections in the world.sb knows which side his/her bread is buttered (on)used in order to say that someone knows they must help, obey, or support another person in order to get an advantage:I'm sure the public will see which side their bread is buttered when these issues come to a vote.I'd love to tell him how much I hate working for him, but I know very well which side my bread is buttered on.sb thinks sth is the best/greatest thing since sliced breadused when someone else thinks that something is extremely good, useful, or important, often when you do not agree:We all know how boring it is having advertisers try to tell us that their product is the best thing since sliced bread - but here's an ad that does the opposite.They have a filing system which is highly efficient, and the engineers think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

bread

n. money. I need to get some bread to live on.
See:
  • (one's) daily bread
  • a bread-and-butter letter
  • a little bit of bread and no cheese
  • below the breadline
  • bread
  • bread always falls on the buttered side
  • bread and butter
  • bread and circuses
  • bread and water
  • Bread is the staff of life
  • bread-and-butter letter
  • breadbasket
  • break bread
  • break bread with
  • break bread with (someone)
  • brown bread
  • butter (one's) bread on both sides
  • cast (one's) bread upon the waters
  • Cast bread upon the waters
  • cast one's bread upon the waters, to
  • cast your bread upon the waters
  • earn (one's) daily bread
  • eat the bread of idleness
  • greatest thing since indoor plumbing
  • greatest thing since sliced bread
  • greatest thing since sliced bread, the
  • half a loaf is better than no bread
  • half a loaf is better than none/no bread
  • have (one's) bread buttered on both sides
  • have your bread buttered on both sides
  • heavy bread
  • know on which side your bread is buttered
  • know what/which side of the bread is buttered (on), to
  • know which side (one's) bread is buttered (on)
  • know which side bread is buttered on
  • know which side of (one's) bread is buttered
  • know which side of one's bread is buttered
  • know which side your bread is buttered
  • long bread
  • man cannot live by bread alone
  • Man does not live by bread alone
  • sliced bread
  • someone's bread and butter
  • take the bread out from people's mouths
  • take the bread out of (one's) mouth
  • take the bread out of people's mouths
  • take the bread out of someone's mouth
  • the best thing since sliced bread
  • the greatest thing since sliced bread
  • want (one's) bread buttered on both sides
  • want your bread buttered on both sides
  • white-bread
  • your bread and butter
  • your daily bread
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