take bread and salt

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Verb

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take bread and salt (third-person singular simple present takes bread and salt, present participle taking bread and salt, simple past took bread and salt, past participle taken bread and salt)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To practice the custom of using bread and salt to make solemn an oath or affirmation.