daily breadnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌdeɪ.li ˈbred/us/ˌdeɪ.li ˈbred/informalthe money you need to pay for necessary things, such as food
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Costs & expenses
- admission
- aliment
- alimony
- asking price
- carrying charge
- charge
- compensation
- corkage
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- cost-of-living index
- damage
- dent
- flat rate
- indirect cost
- maintenance
- price war
- running costs
- settlement
- stoppage
- worth
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Examples from literature
- All his possessions were stripped away and plundered, and his family lacked even their daily bread.
- He earned, indeed, his daily bread, but he had neither linen, clothes, nor shoes.
- His mother worked hard for their daily bread.
- They had been crushed by a frightful accident, while working for his daily bread, in the quarries of marble near the palace on the hill.
- With daily toil for daily bread, with sordid pains and pleasures?