meat and drink to one

Idioms  

1. A source of great satisfaction or delight, as in Good music is meat and drink to her. This metaphoric expression, transferring basic sustenance to satisfaction, appeared as early as 1533, in John Frith's A Boke Answering unto Mr. Mores Letter: “It is meat and drink to this child to play.”

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Example Sentences

"A word of praise is meat and drink to one who sings—or dances," he added remembering the hare.

From The Cat in Grandfather's House by Grabo, Carl Henry