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单词 take the bread out of someone's mouth
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take the bread out of someone's mouth


Deprive someone of his or her livelihood, as in Lowering wages is taking the bread out of the workers' mouths. [c. 1700]

Words nearby take the bread out of someone's mouth

take stock, take stock in, takes two, take the bit in one's mouth, Take the bitter with the sweet, take the bread out of someone's mouth, take the bull by the horns, take the cake, take the edge off, take the fall, take the field
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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