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- take the bread out of someone's mouth
take the bread out of someone's mouth
take the bread out of someone's mouth
Deprive someone of his or her livelihood, as in Lowering wages is taking the bread out of the workers' mouths. [c. 1700]
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Maarika | | MAH:-ree-kah (Finnish) | Finnish, Estonian |
| Arachne | | ə-RAK-nee (English) | Greek Mythology |
| Isidor | | EE-see-dawr (German) | German, Russian, Macedonian |
| Jagoda | | yah-GAW-dah (Polish) | Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish |
| Aleksy | | ahl-EK-si | Polish |
| Gladys | | GLAD-is (English) | Welsh, English |