Bread
To break bread. To partake of food. Common in Scripture
language. Breaking of bread. The Eucharist.
“They continued ... in breaking of bread, and in prayers.”- Acts ii.
42; and again verse 46.
Bread
He took bread and salt, i.e. he took his oath. Bread and salt
were formerly eaten when an oath was taken.
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days
(Eccles. xi. 1). When the Nile overflows its banks the weeds perish
and the soil is disintegrated. The rice-seed being cast into the water
takes root, and is found in due time growing in healthful vigour.
Don't quarrel with your bread and butter.
Don't foolishly give up the pursuit by which you earn your living.
To know which side one's bread is buttered. To be mindful of one's
own interest.
To take the bread out of one's mouth.
To forestall another; to say something which another was on the
point of saying; to take away another's livelihood. (See under
Butter.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bread from Fact Monster:
- bread - bread bread, food made from grains that have been ground into flour or meal, moistened and kneaded ...
- Hottentot bread - Hottentot bread: Hottentot bread: see yam.
- St.-John's-bread - St.-John's-bread: St.-John's-bread: see carob.
- carob - carob carob , leguminous evergreen tree (Ceratonia siliqua) of the family Leguminosae (pulse ...
- yam - yam yam, common name for some members of the Dioscoreaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical ...
|
