eat the bread of idleness
eat the bread of idleness
To eat food that one has not personally earned. The phrase originated in the Bible. I refuse to eat the bread of idleness.
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eat the bread of idleness
eat food that you have not worked for. literaryThis phrase appears in the description of the virtuous woman in Proverbs 31:27: ‘She…eateth not the bread of idleness’.
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