on the breadline | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)In asituationofextremepoverty; relying onfooddonationsor having only enough tosurvive.2021February 25, Lilac Mills,Sunset on the Square: Escape on a Spanish Holiday with this Heartwarming Love Story, London: Canelo,→ISBN,→OCLC,→ISBN:She wasn'ton the breadlineexactly, but she didn't have an awful lot of spare cash to throw around, and she always, always lived within her means.2012March 17, Russell M. Nash,Yellow Fever: An Englishman Falls Under the Spell of the Far East, Memoirs Publishing,→ISBN,→ISBN:This life continuously trappedon the breadlinewas not what I wanted, not forever.2014January 16, Veronica Henry,Love on the Rocks, London: Orion,→ISBN,→OCLC,→ISBN:He was wearing a grubby white shirt, jeans and scuffed black slip-on shoes. Anyone would think he wason the breadlinetoo.2015, J. R. L. Anderson,Death on the Rocks: A Classic English Murder Mystery, London: Bonnier Publishing Fiction,→ISBN,→OCLC,→ISBN:With capital of about £16,000 I wasn't exactlyon the breadline.2012September 20, Kevin Twaddle,Life on the Line: How to Lose a Million and So Much More, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing,→ISBN,→OCLC,→ISBN:There were times where money was tight and we probably wereon the breadline, but I still never really wanted for anything.1998, Keith Laybourn,Britainon the breadline: A social and political history of Britain 1918-1939, Gloucestershire: Sutton,→ISBN,→OCLC,→ISBN:Britain survivedon the breadline.1969, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives,Parliamentary Debates‎[1], page4044:It is ridiculous to put our own peopleon the breadlineby 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, page70,→ISBN:The alternative argument states that, for people livingon the breadlinewhere every penny counts, the loss of a job may be the last straw factor.

Examples:

EN: - Are you on the breadline?
ES: ¿Vive de la caridad?
EN: Yesterday you was a hobo on the breadline, today you got a thousand berries and a new suit.
ES: Ayer eras un vagabundo que estaba en la miseria... hoy has conseguido mil pavos y un traje nuevo.
EN: That guy keeps bucking in to you, you'll be the best-dressed man on the breadline.
ES: Si él sigue así, estarás en la miseria con todo y traje.
EN: Think of the machinists and lathe operators... and folks like that who'd be on the breadline.
ES: Piensa en los maquinistas y los operadores de torno y gente así que estaría en la miseria.
EN: Brought her out after years on the breadline.
ES: Realmente salió después de todos esos años en la línea de pan.
EN: See you on the breadline.
ES: Volveremos a batallar.
EN: Know how it feels on the breadline
ES: ¡Muévelo!
EN: If we leave here without another job lined up, we're gonna end up on the breadline, and that is a fact!
ES: Si nos vamos de aquí sin tener trabajo... pronto estaremos mendigando. ¡Esa es la verdad!
EN: I'm out of a job, Kash is out of a job, your family's on the breadline, and you don't give a fuck!
ES: Yo no tengo trabajo, Kash no tiene trabajo, tu familia está en la miseria, y vos no aportas una mierda!
EN: Before you go, that woman there, 38-years-old and living on the breadline with a chronically-sick husband and five children under the age of 12.
ES: Antes de que se vaya, esa mujer ahí, 38 años, viviendo en la miseria con un marido enfermo crónico y 5 hijos, todos menores de 12 años.
EN: - like the rest of us. - That's what I've been doing. I've been on the breadline swapping paintings for food, for fuck's sake.
ES: Eso he estado haciendo, cambiando cuadros por comida, maldita sea.
EN: His family will be on the breadline next week.
ES: Su familia deberá pedir ayuda social la semana entrante.
EN: Does this look like we are on the breadline?
ES: ¿Así se ve la bancarrota?
EN: However, she did open up about how the movie was really about living on the breadline as well as fighting with her then-partner and musical collaborator, Lindsey Buckingham.
HI: हालाँकि, उसने इस बारे में खुलकर बात की कि फिल्म वास्तव में ब्रेडलाइन पर रहने के साथ-साथ उसके तत्कालीन साथी और संगीत सहयोगी लिंडसे बकिंघम के साथ लड़ने के बारे में थी।
EN: Many families lived on the breadline.
HI: कई परिवार फुटपाथ पर रहते थे।

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