daily bread
13
2.7
- noun
- Informal
:
pan de cada día
- She works hard to earn her daily bread and support her children.
Give us today Our Daily Bread because we're trusting you.
- Give us today Our Daily Bread because we're trusting you.
- OK, on it, on something, you know, the wheat business, the barley business, you know, the corn and soybean, you know, it's just daily bread.
Examples
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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Give us this day our daily bread.
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Give us this day our daily bread.
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Give us this day our daily bread.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us for our sins.
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All it gets you is your daily bread if you eat cheaply.
Blog text (26) -
Peirce often earned his daily bread with such writings, or at least tried to.
Academic text (1994) -
In the midst of their prosperous living, he had too often forgotten his daily bread.
Fiction book (1995) -
Both stop by Wal-Mart or an equivalent on their way home to gather their daily bread.
Blog text (2) -
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Synonyms
16
3.0
The main way a person earns money
2
3.7
A basic bread people eat as a main food
Antonyms
How Essential
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly composed from 'daily' (each day) + 'bread' (staple food); a B1 learner who knows both words would naturally infer it refers to the food one needs each day and, by extension, basic sustenance. The bread-as-staple metaphor is widespread (including in other languages and religious usage), so the extended sense 'basic necessities' is likely predictable rather than arbitrary.
Etymology
Daily bread comes from an old Christian prayer that asks God to give people food for each day. The simple picture of plain bread for each day makes it easy to see why daily bread now means 'basic needs' or 'daily food'.