Bread, which is the support of life. Shakespeare says, “The boy was the very staff of my age,” The allusion is to a staff which supports the feeble in walking.
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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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