subs. phr. (colloquial).—Emolument; profit; temporal benefits [from John vi. 26].

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  c. 1787.  JOHN ADAMS, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, in Works, v. 18. These four orders must be divided at once into factions for the LOAVES AND FISHES.

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  1830.  BUCKSTONE, The Cab-Driver, i. Do you think the gentlemen are to have all the LOAVES AND FISHES?

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  1841.  Punch, i. p. 18, col. 1. I only know that I am mortal by two sensations—a yearning for LOAVES AND FISHES and a love for Judy.

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