{"id":18013,"date":"2019-07-05T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T11:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=18013"},"modified":"2019-07-17T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T13:43:37","slug":"winning-ones-steak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18013","title":{"rendered":"Winning One\u2019s Steak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting French expression I learnt last night was <strong>gagner son bifteck<\/strong>, which means literally \u201cto win\/earn one\u2019s steak\u201d, and is the equivalent of \u201cto bring home the bacon\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gagner_son_bifteck\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The French word <strong>bifteck<\/strong> [bif.t\u025bk] comes from the English <strong>beefsteak<\/strong>, and means steak.<\/p>\n<p>Related expressions in French include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>gagner sa vie = to earn one\u2019s living<\/li>\n<li>gagner de quoi vivre = to earn one\u2019s keep<\/li>\n<li>gagner sa cro\u00fbte = to earn one\u2019s crust<\/li>\n<li>gagner une mis\u00e8re = to earn a pittance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Similar phrases in English include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to keep the wolf from the door<\/li>\n<li>to put food on the table<\/li>\n<li>to keep clothes on your back<\/li>\n<li>to keep a roof over your head<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you know any others?<\/p>\n<p>In Welsh equivalent expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ennill eich tamaid = to earn one\u2019s living (\u201cto achieve\/win\/earn one\u2019s bite\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>ennill eich bara (menyn) = to earn one\u2019s bread (and butter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What about in other languages?<\/p>\n<p><em>By the way, if you&#8217;ve been unable to access this blog, or other parts of Omniglot recently, this is because of my inept attempts to make it secure with SSL, etc. Fortunately the good people at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\">Kualo<\/a><\/strong>, where this site is hosted, were able to sort things out quickly, and normal service has now been resumed, hopefully.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you&#8217;re looking for somewhere to host your website, I would definitely recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\">Kualo<\/a>. Their service and technical support are excellent, and their prices are reasonable. They also use renewable energy as much as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting French expression I learnt last night was gagner son bifteck, which means literally \u201cto win\/earn one\u2019s steak\u201d, and is the equivalent of \u201cto bring home the bacon\u201d [source]. The French word bifteck [bif.t\u025bk] comes from the English beefsteak, and means steak. Related expressions in French include: gagner sa vie = to earn one\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18081,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18013\/revisions\/18081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}