crumbs from the table

In Russian, the phrase крохи co стола (krokhi co stola) or “crumbs from the table” is widely used as an idiom for receiving only left-overs or very little. The wording of the quote originated in the Russian Synodal Bible (publ. 1876). (Source: Reznikov 2020, p. 103f.)

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