loaves

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 344 words | Copyright

loaves loaves and fishes personal profit as a motive for religious profession or public service, with biblical allusion to John 6:26, and the story of the miracle by which Jesus and his disciples fed a crowd of five thousand with ‘five loaves, and two fishes’.
loaves of bread the emblem of St Philip and St Nicholas of Tolentino.

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