break bread

Idioms and Phrases

Have a meal, eat. For example, It's hard to remain enemies when you've broken bread together . This term occurs in numerous places in the New Testament, where it sometimes means to share bread and other times to distribute food to others. In later usage it came to refer to the sacramental bread of Communion in Christian services. The latter survives in the spiritual hymn, “Let Us Break Bread Together.” [1300s]

Example Sentences

That knowledge came from being a film composer and also so many colleagues in the film world, who I’ve had a chance to break bread with.

From Los Angeles Times

I named my podcast breaking bread because I’m huge into baking bread and I love to host dinners and get-togethers.

From Los Angeles Times

“I love these people. These are people we’ve broken bread with. ... How do you tell somebody your house is still standing but theirs is not?”

From Los Angeles Times

In fact, he said there were "beautiful interactions" as the group from the mosque were able to "break bread" and listen to some people's concerns in "deep conversations".

From BBC

“And they would end with a farm dinner where people break bread in this really beautiful place where they’re surrounded by food, flowers and cannabis — all of these things that come from the ground.”

From Los Angeles Times