break bread with

break bread with (someone)

To eat with someone. To break bread with one's enemy is the fastest way to find common ground. I love to break bread with my family on holidays—and I also love when they go back home afterwards! This guy is our ideal candidate for the job, so I need one of you to break bread with him—you know, really wine and dine him.

See also: bread, break

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break bread with someone

Fig. to eat a meal with someone. Please come by and break bread with us sometime. I would like to break bread with you.

See also: bread, break

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

break bread with

share a meal with someone. dated

See also: bread, break

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