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People talk

There are many interesting tags and proverbs about bread. For example, the following ancient tags like:

A piece of bread in the pocket is better than feather on the hat

The person whose bread man eats is the person whose songs he sings

Bread earned oneself is sweet

There is bread for every child

Work with sweat, and then you eat bread with greed

If a master gives bread, the God gives us time

A bit of bread is better than evil word

Fire from chips and borrowed bread do not last long

Young girls and white bread are aging fast

Work fears bread-eaten men

The word ‘bread’ is associated with something more than just a good meal in idiomatic tags even today. For instance, people use the following tags:

To sit on bread (to draw a good salary)

To seek new bread (to seek a new job)

To put loaves of bread into a joint cupboard (to marry, to start live together)

[Something] is consumed like bread (something is spent much)

[Something] do not ask bread (something may be useful)

Search like you would search bread (search more carefully)

Filthy work but sweet bread (difficult job but good pay)

To earn one’s bread with jaws (a job requires much communication)

People talk about things they have in mind. Good Estonian bread continues to be in people’s mind and tales several hundred of years from now.