单词 | cheese and bread |
释义 | > as lemmascheese and bread P1. Scottish. cheese and bread: plain or simple food; the food that is necessary for subsistence. Cf. bread and cheese n. ΚΠ c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. K.ivv Better it is, with chese and bread one to fyllThan with great deynte, with anger and yll wyll. 1749 Tale Two Tubs 12 Ev'ry man should have his pay..; Besides strong beer, and cheese and bread. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 223 They'd need o' cheese and bread, I wat, After the lang darg they'd been at. 1946 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 22 July 3/2 Scots, wha toiled on cheese and bread, Scots, wham beer has aften fed. < as lemmas |
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