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PROVERB
PUT BREAD BETWEEN YOUR TEETH AND YOUR HUNGER SHALL RETURN.
Submitter comment:
THE MEANING BEHIND THIS SAYING IS LITERAL. IF A PERSON, FOR EXAMPLE,
COMES HOME FROM WORK AND SAYS HE/SHE IS NOT HUNGRY, IT WILL TAKE
JUST ONE BITE OF THE DINNER THAT HAS BEEN PREPARED TO CHANGE THEIR
MIND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-25-1982