Brewer's: Staff of Life

(The). Bread, which is the support of life. Shakespeare says, “The boy was the very staff of my age.” The allusion is to a staff which supports the feeble in walking.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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