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What does put food on the table mean?

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  1. (idiomatic) To provide enough money to cover basic necessities.
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In many cases, like the men and women on the picket lines, they too are just trying to put food on the table.
Excuses do not put food on the table and they do not pay for children's clothes.
I mean, this is all very well as a hobby, but will blogging put food on the table?
She managed to scrape a few rands together to put her children through school and put food on the table.
People have expenses for their children and they need to put food on the table.
That will not put food on the table for people in my riding of Nanaimo-Cowichan.

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