The bread of affliction or humiliation. Bread too salt is both disagreeable to the taste and indigestible.
“Learning how hard it is to get back when once exiled, and how salt is the bread of others.”—Mrs. Oliphant: Makers of Florence, p. 85.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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