eat the bread of idleness

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eat the bread of idleness (third-person singular simple present eat the bread of idleness, present participle eating the bread of idleness, simple past ate the bread of idleness, past participle eaten the bread of idleness)

  1. (archaic, obsolete, biblical) To eat or consume food that one has not worked for or personally earned.