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- noun Plural form of
breadline .
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Examples
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When the US economy totally collapses, and the wealthy laugh at the unemployed in breadlines, then Americans might rise up in revolution?!
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He will have us all losing our jobs and standing in breadlines.
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Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines!
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Comes Out Swinging in Weekly Address 2009
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Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines!
David O. Russell: FDR Said It All in 1936 -- Who Will Follow in His Steps Today? David O. Russell 2011
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Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines!
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Comes Out Swinging in Weekly Address 2009
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When I was growing up, he spoke often of his memories of breadlines, tent cities, and government-issued clothing.
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As the housing collapse has turned into a financial crisis, and the financial crisis into an economic calamity, the government has tried furiously to keep the country free of breadlines and trash-can fires.
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Invest in the rights to photographs of breadlines.
HUFFPOST HILL - Dave Obey Appropriates Himself To K Street Eliot Nelson 2011
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We are in the highest levels of the power and in the breadlines and soup kitchens.
Kergan Edwards-Stout: Our Place in the World: Reclaiming Our Humanity Kergan Edwards-Stout 2012
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When I was growing up, he spoke often of his memories of breadlines, tent cities, and government-issued clothing.
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