take the bread out of somebody's mouth

成語所屬單字bread

take the bread out of somebody's mouth — 慣用語

1. to remove the work or pay that keeps someone able to live.

1.慣用語
釋義

斷人生計

to remove the work or pay that keeps someone able to live.

例句

Cheap imports took the bread out of local farmers' mouths.

Closing the mill would take the bread out of two hundred families' mouths.