Hezar ja zakhmat bekeshid ta yeh loghnan peyda konid
English translation: You have to work all the time just to make a living (lit. "to get a piece of bread")
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| هزار جور زحمت بکشی تا یه لقمه نون پیدا کنی One needs to work all the time to make a living (earn some money). Explanation: هزار جور زحمت بکشی تا یه لقمه نون پیدا کنی لقمه نون is a metaphor for the money one earns so that s/he can make a living. نون=نان is a symbol of one's essential needs. |
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One bothers a lot to get a morsel of bread Explanation: A morsel is a small amount of something, a tid-bit, a sliver, usually of something of high-quality and much desired — like a morsel of dark chocolate or a morsel of secret information. Originally it referred specifically to food — a nineteenth century lady might partake of a "dainty morsel" to eat, for example. More often than not morsel now refers to non-food items: a morsel of good taste; a morsel of common sense, and, of course, most popular of all, a morsel of gossip. That's why, like all good food, all good gossip is juicy. |
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you have to work a bunch of places just to get a piece of bread Explanation: we could also say: you have to work a thousand places just to get a piece of bread...personally, this sounds a bit exaggerated in English compared to the Persian usage. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 days11 hrs (2016-03-23 14:47:39 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- we could also say: "...get a bite of bread" |
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