put bread on the table
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Meaning
put bread on the table (third-person singular simple present puts bread on the table, present participle putting bread on the table, simple past and past participle put bread on the table)
Synonym of put food on the table
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You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
People have to put bread on the table and they're trying to do political work as well.