10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAKE THE BREAD OUT OF SOMEONE'S MOUTH»
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The American Heritage Dictionary
of Idioms, Second Edition
[1930s] 9. See under take out of. take out of ➧ See take a leaf out of someone's
book; take it out of one; take the bread out of someone's mouth; take the starch
out of; take the sting out of; take the wind out of someone's sails; take the words
out ...
Vf- to melt in the mouth JnL MELT to put one's money where one's mouth is M,
MONEY to put words into someone's mouth HL WORD to shoot one's mouth off M
. SHOOT to stop the mouth of H. STOP to take the bread out of someone's mouth
1 ...
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Food: A Dictionary
of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
TAKE FOOD OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF CHILDREN See Starve (v); Take the
Bread out of Someone's Mouth. TAKE-OUT See Restaurant. TAKE POTLUCK to
take potluck (or pot luck), To take what is offered to you. NSOED: late-16th cent.
Robert Allen Palmatier, 2000
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Sterling Dictionary
of Idioms
... the first thing I did was to dash off a bread-andbutter letter to London. take the
bread out of someone's mouth deprive someone of his living By ordering the
closure of his shop the authorities have taken the bread out ofhis mouth. know
which ...
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Idiomatic Expressions with English Grammar' 99 Ed.
TAKE TEN TAKE TEN TAKE THE AIR TAKE THE BIT IN ONE'S//MOUTH/ TEETH
TAKE THE BLOOM OFF SOMETHING TAKE THE BOWS TAKE THE BREAD OUT
OF SOMEONE'S MOUTH TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS TAKE THE CAKE ...
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The Sterling Book
of Idioms
'top brass the most important people in an organisation The top brass have
decided to come together to thrash out a lasting solution to the conflict between
the two managers. to take the bread out of someone's mouth to deprive someone
of his ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
know which side one's bread is buttered colloq to know how to act for one's own
best advantage, take the bread out of someone's mouth colloq to deprive them of
their very means of living. bread and butter > n 1 bread that has been sliced and
...
8
Food, Consumption and
the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction
... take the bread out of someone's mouth'; 'you must earn some bread'.
Christianity is a major source of the symbolic use of bread, most obviously in the
association of bread with Christ's body at the last supper and the ensuing Mass
or ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
... enough to make ends meet (from breadline, a queue of poor or down- and-out
people waiting for free food, esp from government sources): take the bread out of
someone's mouth to deprive someone of the means of living. [OE bread, prob ...
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
take the bread out of someone's mouth colloq to deprive them of their very means
of living. © Anglo-Saxon. bread and butter i • noun 1 bread that has been sliced
and spread with butter. 2 a means of earning a living; subsistence, o adj ...
