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one's bread upon the waters

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  • cast one's bread upon the waters — To be generous or charitable without expecting any reward • • • Main Entry: ↑bread * * * I do good without expecting gratitude or reward Origin: with biblical allusion to Eccles. 11:1 II see bread …   Useful english dictionary

  • cast one's bread upon the waters — ► cast one s bread upon the waters do good without expecting gratitude or reward. [ORIGIN: with biblical allusion to the Book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 11.] Main Entry: ↑bread …   English terms dictionary

  • cast one's bread upon the waters — do good without expecting gratitude or reward. [with biblical allusion to Eccles. 11:1.] → bread …   English new terms dictionary

  • bread — ► NOUN 1) food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked. 2) informal money. ● bread and butter Cf. ↑bread and butter ● bread and circuses Cf. ↑bread and circuses …   English terms dictionary

  • bread — [bred] n. [ME bred < OE bread, crumb, morsel < IE * bhreu , var. of * bhereu , to ferment < base * bher , well up, seethe > BREW, BURN1, L fervere, to boil] 1. a) a food baked from a leavened, kneaded dough made with flour or meal,… …   English World dictionary

  • bread — /brɛd / (say bred) noun 1. a food made of flour or meal, milk or water, etc., made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or the like, and baked. 2. food or sustenance; livelihood: to earn one s bread. 3. Ecclesiastical the wafer or bread… …  

  • bread — breadless, adj. breadlessness, n. /bred/, n. 1. a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked. 2. food or sustenance; livelihood …   Universalium

  • bread — n. & v. n. 1 baked dough made of flour usu. leavened with yeast and moistened, eaten as a staple food. 2 a necessary food. b (also daily bread) one s livelihood. 3 sl. money. v.tr. coat with breadcrumbs for cooking. Phrases and idioms: bread and… …   Useful english dictionary

  • bread — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. staff of life; white, rye, pumpernickel, sourdough, whole wheat, etc. bread; slang, money. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Grain product] Syn. loaf, baked goods, the staff of life. Types of bread include:… …   English dictionary for students

  • bread — noun 1》 food made of flour, water, and yeast mixed together and baked. 2》 informal money. Phrases bread and butter a person s livelihood or main source of income. bread and circuses entertainment or political policies intended to keep the masses… …   English new terms dictionary

  • The Alphabet of Ben-Sira — ( Alphabetum Siracidis , Othijoth ben Sira ) is an anonymous medieval text, attributed to Ben Sira (Sirach), the author of Ecclesiasticus . It is dated to anywhere between AD 700 and 1000. It is a compilation of two lists of proverbs, 22 in… …   Wikipedia

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