put food on the table: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    USUKglobalneutralinformal
    • To earn money or provide the basic means necessary to support oneself or one's dependants, especially for necessities such as food.

    Examples

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    • After losing his job, he struggled to put food on the table for his family.

      Después de perder su trabajo, luchó por alimentar a su familia.

    • She works two jobs to put food on the table and pay the bills.

      Ella trabaja en dos empleos para mantener a su familia y pagar las cuentas.

    • If I don’t find a new client soon, I won’t be able to put food on the table next month.

      Si no encuentro un nuevo cliente pronto, no podré mantener a mi familia el próximo mes.

Examples:

  • EN: You saying you'll put food on the table?
    ES: ¿Dices que me alimentarás?
  • EN: They were never more than a way to put food on the table. I want something...
    ES: Consigo mantenerme, pero... quiero hacer algo más que eso.
  • EN: You saying you'll put food on the table?
    ES: ¿Dices que me alimentarás?
  • EN: They were never more than a way to put food on the table. I want something...
    ES: Consigo mantenerme, pero... quiero hacer algo más que eso.
  • EN: Someone simple, someone earnest and serious, someone who can earn enough to put food on the table.
    ES: Alguien sencillo, alguien serio y formal, alguien que gane lo suficiente para poner comida en la mesa.
  • EN: Do you think calm and intelligence are going to put food on the table?
    ES: ¿Tú te crees que calma e inteligencia nos darán de comer?
  • EN: I don't even have money to put food on the table.
    ES: No tengo ni para comer.
  • EN: I have to put food on the table.
    ES: Tengo que poner comida en la mesa.
  • EN: Of your laborer's hands... which, for my mother and me, put food on the table and to which I also owe my engineering degree.
    ES: De tus manos de obrero... que a mi madre y a mí, nos dieron el sustento. Y a las que también, debo mi título de ingeniero.
  • EN: - You don't put food on the table.
    ES: - Recuerda quién te da de comer.
  • EN: You beast, I'm just a woman working to put food on the table!
    ES: Id a explotar a otros y no a una pobre mujer, que trabaja para ganarse el pan. ¡Sucia bestia!
  • EN: Used to put food on the table. Keep foxes out of the chicken coop, bandits out of the bank.
    ES: Se utiliza para proteger y mantener lejos a los ladrones.
  • EN: - He goes out with women. - You're talking about a guy... i've been with for 15 years, who's put food on the table and clothes on her back. He has a good time.
    ES: Sale con ellas.
  • EN: It'd be nice if you had enough money to put food on the table at the end of the day.
    ES: Estaría bien que tuvierais dinero suficiente para poner comida en la mesa.
  • EN: I have to work to put food on the table for us.
    ES: Tengo que trabajar para mantenernos.
  • EN: It sounds real good, Loyd, but you know, how's that going to put food on the table?
    ES: Suena muy bien, Loyd, pero sabes. ¿cómo va eso a darme de comer? ¿Sabes?
  • EN: They gotta put food on the table.
    ES: Tienen que llevar comida a sus mesas.

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