米こめびつ

noun

rice bin; rice chest

A container for storing uncooked rice, traditionally a wooden chest but now often a plastic bin.

• 新あたらしい米こめびつを買かって、お米こめを移うつした。

  I bought a new rice bin and transferred the rice into it.

noun

breadwinner; source of income

Colloquial metaphor: the person whose earnings support the household, likened to a rice bin that supplies the staple food.

• 彼かれが一いっ家かの米こめびつだ。

  He is the breadwinner of the family.