breadline
A line of people waiting to receive food from a charityA line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
» Nowadays people in Venezuela are on the breadline.
Heutzutage leben die Leute in Venezuela am Existenzminimum.
В настоящее время люди в Венесуэле живут за чертой бедности.
Значение
значений: 2(США)A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
Brotschlange
a queue of people waiting for free food
(Британия, переносно)The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level.
Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline.
Existenzminimum
Примеры
предложений: 2Nowadays people in Venezuela are on the breadline.
В настоящее время люди в Венесуэле живут за чертой бедности. — odexed
deHeutzutage leben die Leute in Venezuela am Existenzminimum. — Yakuwari
I am living on the breadline even though I am always working hard.
Переводы
языков: 3По значениям 2
Происхождение
From bread + line. In sense 2, referring to the income level at which one can afford to buFrom bread + line. In sense 2, referring to the income level at which one can afford to buy bread, a staple food.
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Формы
мн. число: breadlinesСинонимы
синонимов: 1- a queue of people waiting for free food:bread line