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eat the bread of idleness

eat the bread of idleness verb: to eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned.

Verb

eat the bread of idleness (third-person singular simple present eats the bread of idleness, present participle eating the bread of idleness, simple past ate the bread of idleness, past participle eaten the bread of idleness)

  1. (archaic, obsolete) To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned.

Forms of eat the bread of idleness

third-person singular presenteats the bread of idleness
present participleeating the bread of idleness
pastate the bread of idleness
past participleeaten the bread of idleness

Questions about eat the bread of idleness

What does eat the bread of idleness mean?
Eat the bread of idleness means to eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned.
What part of speech is eat the bread of idleness?
Eat the bread of idleness is a verb.
What is the past tense of eat the bread of idleness?
The past tense of eat the bread of idleness is ate the bread of idleness.

Words near eat the bread of idleness in the dictionary

  1. eat someone's ass
  2. eat someone's dust
  3. eat someone's heart
  4. eat someone's lunch
  5. eat the baby
  6. eat the bread of idleness
  7. eat the leek
  8. eat the mic
  9. eat the onion
  10. eat the rich
  11. eat the seed corn

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