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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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These small business owners put in long hours and try hard to put food on the table for their families.
It also employs labourers to help clear sites, providing pay that enables Afghan men to put food on the table for their families.
In many cases, like the men and women on the picket lines, they too are just trying to 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.
She worked full time as a weaver to put food on the table and cared for three of us without lamenting her lot.
That will not put food on the table for people in my riding of Nanaimo-Cowichan.

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