staff of life | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,oftenliteraryorpoetic)Breador some otherstaplefoodstuff.1831July 15, “Of the Blood”, inWestern Journal of Health‎[1], volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page38:It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, thestaff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.1989, Rita Knipe,The Water of Life: A Jungian Journey Through Hawaiian Myth‎[2],University of Hawaii Press,→ISBN, page38:The round calabash is a perfect image for the feminine womb, within which the arduously pounded taro is contained and then offered as the verystaff of life.1998February 18, Colin G. Calloway,New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America‎[3], JHU Press,→ISBN, pages51–52:Corn was thestaff of lifefor many Indian people before contact, and it became thestaff of lifefor many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn.

Examples:

EN: And here was the staff of life to hand; and his wife and baby call.
ES: Tenía la salvación de su esposa y su hija al alcance de la mano.
EN: Bread, the staff of life.
ES: La base de la vida.
EN: Dutchman's mother's milk, the staff of life in a stone bottle.
ES: Esta es la leche que da vida al holandés. El gin en botella de cerámica.
EN: The staff of life.
ES: - Es nuestra forma de vida.
EN: But bread, my dear. That's the staff of life.
ES: El pan es la esencia de la vida, querida.
EN: Seeking overtake planet for production of Kromo staff of life.
ES: Buscábamos tomar el control del planeta para la producción de alimentos para la población de Chromo.
EN: Money is the staff of life!
ES: ¡El dinero es el bastón de la vida!
EN: What we need is the basic staff of life!
ES: ¡Lo que necesitamos es lo básico en esta vida!
EN: Friendship... is the staff of life, eh, Queequeg?
ES: La amistad... es el sustento de la vida, ¿no, Queequeg?
EN: It's the staff of life.
ES: Es la base de la vida.
EN: Well, guess what the staff of life is, Milly.
ES: Bien, adivina cuál es la base de la vida, Milly.
EN: This is the staff of life.
ES: Esta es la esencia de la vida.
EN: "You take the staff of life and the grapes."
ES: Tomas la vara de la vida y las uvas...
EN: Goddamn staff of life.
ES: La maldita esencia de la vida.
EN: It is the staff of life.
ES: Es la esencia de la vida.

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