We've all got to eat meaning in English

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Definition

We've all got to eat!: I need to get the money somehow! idiom

Examples

"And you know the old saying Bruno, "We've all got to eat"."

Exercise 1

When Sam says "we've all got to eat", what does he mean?

Negotiating should be done on a full stomach.

Everybody's got to earn a living somehow.

Every major bank provides the same services as Huckster and Hoodwink.

Everybody must eat to physically survive.

I don't know

When Sam says "we've all got to eat", what does he mean?

Negotiating should be done on a full stomach.

This is not what Sam's idiom expresses. Sam is trying to justify all the supplementary charges of the bank by saying that everybody must earn enough money to live or "to eat". He is not expressing that the three of them should eat before discussing anything else.

Everybody's got to earn a living somehow.

This is the best definition of Sam's expression "we've all got to eat". This idiom indicates that everybody in the world is required to work in order to pay the bills, or "to put food on the table". In this conversation, Sam is trying to justify the extra charges which Bruno is complaining about.

Every major bank provides the same services as Huckster and Hoodwink.

This is not what Sam's idiom expresses. Sam is trying to justify all the supplementary charges of the bank by saying that everybody must earn enough money to live or "to eat". He is not expressing that all banks do the same thing as Huckster and Hoodwink.

Everybody must eat to physically survive.

This is a very literal interpretation of Sam's expression, which does not express his meaning at all.

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