Expressions with ‘pain’

10 expressions with ‘pain’. More on the premium material.

1. aller au pain*[1] — to go to bread — to go and get bread (literal)
2. avoir du pain sur la planche — to have bread on the cutting board — to have a lot to do
3. ça ne mange pas de pain — it doesn’t eat any bread — there’s no harm
4. ça se vend comme des petits pains — it sells itself like little breads — they’re going like hot cakes
5. enlever le pain de la bouche de quelqu’un — to take off the bread from someone’s mouth — to deprive someone of something, of a living
6. être au pain sec — to be on the dry bread — to be in a difficult economic situation
7. gagner son pain — to earn your bread — to earn a living
8. pour un morceau de pain — for a piece of bread — for a song
9. pour une bouchée de pain — for a bite of bread — for a song
10. un gagne-pain — an earn-bread — a living, a job

Related: Bread – Le pain .  Food vocabulary .