bread
/brɛd
/- Unfortified whole wheat bread and bread baked from cake flour will still be available.
- Substitute whole-grain flour for half or all of the white flour when baking bread.
- Baking a loaf of bread will change the way you think about food.
- Now this was according to God's will, so that the church might be provided with pure altar bread made by the hands of a chaste and innocent youth.
- After all, the consecrated bread had become body, and a body already contains blood.
- In his place was a priest with power to turn wine into blood and wafers of bread into flesh.
- His dad's job is putting bread on the table.
- Of course we must end poverty, and give men and women enough bread to live on.
- Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here.
- It makes sense to use your head and spread the bread.
- The uncreative tell the creative what to do because they want the bread.
- She's going to be tired and irritable, and bound to bring up the subject of who earns the bread.
- Use a separate breading station for vegetables and meats or just make sure you bread the vegetables first.
- Continue breading each food item, keeping them separate on the plate or baking sheet.
- Bread meat, chicken and fish rather than broiling or roasting them.
Phrases
be the best (or greatest) thing since sliced bread
bread and circuses
bread and water
bread and wine
the bread of life
break bread
one cannot live by bread alone
cast one's bread upon the waters
one's daily bread
know which side one's bread is buttered (on)
take the bread out of (or from) people's mouths
want one's bread buttered on both sides
Origin
Old English brēad, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch brood and German Brot.
In Old English bread was not the standard term for the familiar food. That was loaf, which has since become restricted to a lump of bread. Bread was such an important part of the diet in the past that it came to stand for food in general. That is why the old translation of the Lord's Prayer says ‘Give us this day our daily bread’. It also lies behind the word breadwinner (early 19th century) for the person whose income feeds the family and to be on the breadline (early 20th century). The sense ‘money’, suggested by the similar use of dough (Old English), was originally 1930s underworld slang in the USA. People have been writing bread and butter letters as a thank you for hospitality since the beginning of the 20th century, initially in the USA, but have known which side their bread is buttered since at least the mid 16th.