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Meaning of tener a pan y cuchillo by Felipe Lorenzo del Río




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tener a pan y cuchillo
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Having someone to bread and knife: verbal phrase which means keep it without anything in return, normally by the precarious situation of the maintained and the magnanimity of the maintainer that tends to be relative, friend, protector, or master of the maintained.

  

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