Past Exhibitions
Expressions Related to Bread

To break bread.

The bread line.

It’s my bread and butter.

Know on which side your bread is buttered.

The upper crust.

Breadwinner.

It is a good thing to eat your brown bread first.

It’s a lot of dough.

Bread is the staff of life but beer is life itself (English).

Bread is baked, you may hang up your girdle (Scottish).

A crust of bread in peace is better than a feast in contention (American).

You can’t eat the same bread twice (American).

Half a loaf is better than no bread at all (English).

He lost his bread and has not found his cake (Polish)

To a starving man bread is sweeter than honey (Lithuanian).

Buttered bread falls on its face (Hebrew).

Bread is relief for all kinds of grief (Spanish).

Where there was grass, there will be bread (Russian).

First think of bread and then of bride (Norwegian).

Give bread to him who knows how to eat it (Maltese).

Even crumbs are bread (Danish).

Bread on a journey is no burden (Russian).

He who shares my bread and salt is not my enemy (Arabic Bedouin proverb).

Bread: The Inside Story

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