衣食父母
yī​shí​fù​mǔ

bread and butter

  • created sense approved 衣食父母 · yī​shí​fù​mǔ · bread and butter — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    衣食父母

    yī​shí​fù​mǔ

    bread and butter

    those on whom one depends for a livelihood, such as customers to a business person or an audience to a performer

    衣食 (literal) → 衣食 · yī​shí · clothes and food 父母 (literal) → 父母 · fù​mǔ · parents

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense