on the breadline
English
Prepositional phrase
on the breadline
- In a situation of extreme poverty; relying on food donations or having only enough to survive.
- 2021 February 25, Lilac Mills, Sunset on the Square: Escape on a Spanish Holiday with this Heartwarming Love Story, London: Canelo, →ISBN, OCLC 1239952293, →ISBN:
- She wasn't on the breadline exactly, but she didn't have an awful lot of spare cash to throw around, and she always, always lived within her means.
- 2012 March 17, Russell M. Nash, Yellow Fever: An Englishman Falls Under the Spell of the Far East, Memoirs Publishing, →ISBN, →ISBN:
- This life continuously trapped on the breadline was not what I wanted, not forever.
- 2014 January 16, Veronica Henry, Love on the Rocks, London: Orion, →ISBN, OCLC 893654411, →ISBN:
- He was wearing a grubby white shirt, jeans and scuffed black slip-on shoes. Anyone would think he was on the breadline too.
- 2015, J. R. L. Anderson, Death on the Rocks: A Classic English Murder Mystery, London: Bonnier Publishing Fiction, →ISBN, OCLC 1147284889, →ISBN:
- With capital of about £16,000 I wasn't exactly on the breadline.
- 2012 September 20, Kevin Twaddle, Life on the Line: How to Lose a Million and So Much More, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, →ISBN, OCLC 798411237, →ISBN:
- There were times where money was tight and we probably were on the breadline, but I still never really wanted for anything.
- 1998, Keith Laybourn, Britain on the breadline: A social and political history of Britain 1918-1939, Gloucestershire: Sutton, →ISBN, OCLC 1064405319, →ISBN:
- Britain survived on the breadline.
- 1969, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 4044:
- It is ridiculous to put our own people on the breadline by reducing their spending power by an enormous sum to save very much less in overseas funds.
- 1993, Valerie Møller, Quality of Life in Unemployment: A Survey Evaluation of Black Township Dwellers, Pretoria: HSRC Publishers, →ISBN, OCLC 1037608473, page 70, →ISBN:
- The alternative argument states that, for people living on the breadline where every penny counts, the loss of a job may be the last straw factor.