daily bread

Meaning

Noun

• All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life.
• All those things, such as regular prayer, worship and meditation, needed to sustain spiritual life.

Origin

• Possibly a reference to the Lord's Prayer in the Bible, part of which reads in the King James Version: “Give us this day our daily bread” (see Matthew 6:11, and compare Luke 11:3).