Usually means: Essential food, typically bread.
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  1. staff of life: Merriam-Webster
  2. the staff of life: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. staff of life: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. staff of life: Vocabulary.com
  5. the staff of life: Wordnik
  6. the staff of life: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. staff of life: Wiktionary
  8. staff of life: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. staff of life: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. The staff of life, staff of life: Dictionary.com
  11. staff of life: Rhymezone
  12. Staff of Life: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. staff of life, the staff of life: FreeDictionary.org
  14. staff of life: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. The staff of life, staff of life: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. staff of life: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (staff of life)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic, often literary or poetic) Bread or some other staple foodstuff.

Similar:
breadstuff, bread, bread of life, bread and butter, daily bread, food, bread-stuff, tack, repast, bread and water, more...

Opposite:
food, sustenance, nourishment, breadwinner

Phrases:
the staff of life, more...

Adjectives:
diet, foodful, provant, tin-pot, bush, pubby, public, jerry, pan, po, local

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Similar:
breadstuff, bread, bread of life, bread and butter, daily bread, food, bread-stuff, tack, repast, bread and water, more...

Opposite:
food, sustenance, nourishment, breadwinner

Phrases:
the staff of life, more...

Adjectives:
diet, foodful, provant, tin-pot, bush, pubby, public, jerry, pan, po, local



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