your daily bread

(one's) daily bread

One's means of living, i.e., food and money. No, working in a canning factory isn't exactly glamorous, but you've got to earn your daily bread somehow. The new universal basic income initiative is intended to provide every citizen their daily bread, even if they've fallen on hard times.
See also: bread, daily
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

your daily ˈbread

the food or money that you need to live: Each one of us has to earn our daily bread somehow.
See also: bread, daily
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • (one's) daily bread
  • daily
  • earn (one's) daily bread
  • earn a crust
  • earn a/your crust
  • crust
  • earn (one's) crust
  • does (exactly) what it says on the tin
  • does what it says on the tin
  • does (exactly) what it says on the box
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Since it's your daily bread and butter you don't have much choice, but to put up with the harassment or stand up to your boss, the second option would probably get you sacked.