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词汇 daily-bread
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your daily bread


idiom
the money that you need so that you can pay for food, clothes, and other ordinary needs, or a job that provides this:
For her music is not a hobby, it's her daily bread.
As a freelance translator I am dependent on my computer for my daily bread.
earn your daily bread He earns his daily bread as a tourist guide.他靠做导游谋生。
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bread and butter
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Earning money
assessable
bank
base pay
basic
basic income
disposable income
hand over fistidiom
in arrearsidiom
line your pocket(s)idiom
livelihood
make an honest livingidiom
pro bono
pro rata
profit from something
prorate
pull
pull something down
raise
revenue
sick pay

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Informal words for money
daily bread
noun[ U ]
 informaluk /ˌdeɪ.li ˈbred/ us /ˌdeɪ.li ˈbred/
the money you need to pay for necessary things, such as food基本生活费,日常开销
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costs & expenses
admission charge
aliment
all in
at cost
at someone's expense
bank charges
overrun
palimony
price point
pricing
punchy
redress
remittance
reserve
RPI
spend
transfer fee
tune
upkeep
whack

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Amounts of money
Examples from literature

All his possessions were stripped away and plundered, and his family lacked even their daily bread. 
He earned, indeed, his daily bread, but he had neither linen, clothes, nor shoes. 
His mother worked hard for their daily bread. 
They had been crushed by a frightful accident, while working for his daily bread, in the quarries of marble near the palace on the hill. 
With daily toil for daily bread, with sordid pains and pleasures? 

Examples of your daily bread


your daily bread
Needs-meeting is the dailybread of moral practice, as it were, and it contrasts with the haute cuisine puzzles that dominate philosophical discussion.
Such primitive errors are the dailybread of editors entrusted with translations, and pretty basic stuff that can be easily corrected.
I had to give dailybread to my wife aa and children.
The dailybread making is a veritable family enterprise.
He probably would not have expected to earn much more than his dailybread and yearly suit of clothes from his position as workhouse master.
And the groups who have representatives therein secure their ' dailybread and butter ' from government through them.
Its members have to do their normal work to earn their dailybread, as it were, and then go on duty at nights and weekends.
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They leave purely and simply because they cannot earn their dailybread at home, and so they have to go to where the work is.
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She cannot discipline the children as well as earn her dailybread.
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Many of the inhabitants are car owners and many workers earn their dailybread by manufacturing cars.
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They are people who have to travel, perforce, every day, morning and night, in search of their dailybread.
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Belief, if it is to mean anything, must be expressed not only in terms of a creed, but in terms of dailybread.
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In short, the household budgets of this country have to provide £48 million for this current year to buy their dailybread.
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But it is clear that our dailybread has a meaning well beyond itself.
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But these are people who earn their dailybread by their labour.
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