daily bread
Noun
Meaning
All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life.
to earn one's daily bread
(by extension, chiefly Christianity) All those things, such as regular prayer, worship and meditation, needed to sustain spiritual life.
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Examples
He said that many people would be happy to replace their daily bread consumption by flat bread (kisra) if sorghum would not be that costly and the production would not demand the purchase of expensive cooking oil and cooking gas or charcoal".
When Saida returned with the news from Uzbekistan, her father immediately contacted her husband in Russia where he had been earning the daily bread.
When we pray the "Our Father," we profess an unconditional willingness to accept God's will, request his presence in the Eucharist – "our daily bread" – and we ask to be forgiven just as we are willing to forgive.
However, a relative of the deceased, who preferred anonymity, lamented that it was in the process of searching for his daily bread that Natta, as he was fondly called, met his untimely death.
They were preventing other willing workers, petty traders, grocers, spare part dealers and market women from reporting to work or earning their daily bread.
We are committed to ensuring that all inhabitants of this planet receive their daily bread, fresh air to breathe and clean water to drink, as we are aware that, if we want justice and peace, we must protect the habitat that sustains us.