| 词汇 | breadwinner |
| 词源 | breadwinner; bread. Breadwinner is one of the few words still retaining the meaning of the Anglo-Saxon word winnan, “to toil,” that gives us the word “win”—a breadwinner being one who toils to obtain bread. As slang for money, bread dates back to about 1935 and may derive from the Cockney rhyming slang “bread and honey,” for money. |
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