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quarrel with one's bread and butter

French translation: Agir à l\'encontre de ses intérêts

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English term or phrase:quarrel with one\'s bread and butter
French translation:Agir à l\'encontre de ses intérêts
Entered by: Sandy Zhang

15:41 Apr 22, 2021
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English term or phrase: quarrel with one's bread and butter
I am doing post-editing job and I have to check the french translation. The software translated "quarrel with one's bread and butter" by "se quereller avec son pain et son beurre". Does anyone know the correct translation please ?
Sandy Zhang
France
Local time: 19:55
Agir à l'encontre de ses intérêts
Explanation:
Explication sur www.usingenglish.com.
Cordialement
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JACQUES LHOMME
France
Local time: 19:55
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Bonjour, merci à tous pour vos réponses, elles m'ont été d'une aide précieuse !
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Agir à l'encontre de ses intérêts
JACQUES LHOMME
4 -1se battre bec et ongles
Samuel Clarisse
3 -2cracher dans la soupe
Daryo


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Agir à l'encontre de ses intérêts


Explanation:
Explication sur www.usingenglish.com.
Cordialement

JACQUES LHOMME
France
Local time: 19:55
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Bonjour, merci à tous pour vos réponses, elles m'ont été d'une aide précieuse !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Daryo
19 hrs
agree  Francois Boye
21 hrs
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
se battre bec et ongles


Explanation:
C'est l'expression française qui s'en rapproche le plus à mon sens...

Samuel Clarisse
France
Local time: 19:55
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 36

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Daryo: wrong assumption of the meaning of the ST
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -2
cracher dans la soupe


Explanation:

dans le sens de "une personne qui dit du mal de ce qui est la source de subsistance de cette personne"


What does 'Quarrel with bread and butter' mean?

Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the bread winner of the family’). If a subordinate in an organisation is quarrelsome or if he is not patient enough to bear the reprimand he deserves, gets angry and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him bread and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with bread and butter (manager or the top man) and lost his job.

https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/quarrel with b...

Cracher dans la soupe

Signification Dédaigner un avantage.

Origine Autrefois, la soupe était considérée comme un aliment indispensable.

Cracher dedans signifiait donc refuser quelque chose pourtant perçu comme bénéfique.
http://www.linternaute.fr/expression/langue-francaise/1044/c...

Not exactly the same as "to quarrel with one's bread and butter", but that's the nearest idiom I can think of right now.

"Le patron en a eu mare de l'écouter cracher dans la soupe à longueur de journée et l'a viré."

Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:55
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  GILLES MEUNIER: trop familier
14 hrs
disagree  Dominique Stiver: effectivement, familier de même que le gagne-pain et compagnie
22 hrs
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