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It is meat and drink to meMeaningMeat and drink in this phrase has two meanings, which appear to be independent of each other. Either, to be a source of support or pleasure or, to be a simple and routine matter. OriginIt isn't clear which of those two meanings is intended in the earliest known use of the phrase - John Frith's, A boke answering vnto M. Mores lettur, 1533:
Shakespeare used the phrase in As You Like It, 1600, and the meaning there is clearly the former:
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