| 单词 | to break a person's rice bowl |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break a person's rice bowl b. figurative. Esp. in Asian contexts: a person's livelihood or source of income. Frequently in to break a person's rice bowl: to deprive a person of the means to make a living. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > livelihood lifeOE foodOE livelihoodc1300 livingc1330 ploughc1390 purchasec1475 daily bread1526 being1570 governing1572 shift1572 supportation1576 thrift1579 livelihead1590 thrive1592 breadwinnera1614 subsistence1644 gain1655 bread and butter1691 through-bearing1705 bread1719 bread ticket1801 daily1817 lifehood1823 rice bowl1853 crust1916 1853 R. S. Hardy tr. Amáwatura in Man. Budhism vii. 271 The tirttaka declared that his rice-bowl was broken, his subsistence gone . 1926 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 3 198 The honest effort to earn their ‘rice bowl’—the Chinese phrase for ‘bread and butter’—by tilling the farms. 1952 N.Y. Amsterdam News 12 Jan. 2/2 In the Far East we have a rule that no one has the right to break the other man's rice bowl. 1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxix. 619 That was his rice bowl, as the government saying went. 2008 A. C. Clarke & F. Pohl Last Theorem viii. 61 You were breaking his rice bowl, you know. If the guests opened their own Coke bottles, the beverage wallah would be out of a job. < as lemmas |
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