# to rise up early, to come home late A person who works hard often has to wake up earlier in the morning and return home late at night. # eat the bread of hard work This is an idiom. Bread often represents the food a person needs every day in order to live. Alternate translation: "work hard for your daily needs" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])