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soup kitchens

n. (soup kitchen English)

Usage examples of "soup kitchens".

By comparison, Depression soup kitchens had been five-star restaurants with blue-plate specials.

I mentioned the soup kitchens, and she did not know what I was talking about!

Mistress Anan was out, it seemed -- she was always organizing soup kitchens for refugees or leaping into some other good work -- but Enid was waving a long wooden spoon at her scurrying helpers and ready to take his coin in her stout hand.

No home, no job, sleeping in cardboard boxes, getting his meals in missions and soup kitchens or what he could dig out of a garbage can.

It doesn't look as if we're going to get any help from official sources and I doubt we'll find any Red Cross soup kitchens set up along the way.

Architecturally, its plain facade and straight lines echoed the gown Eleanor Roosevelt wore to the inaugural ball, while its interior walls still reproduced faithfully the hues of the split pea mush dished up in hundreds of soup kitchens.

She did not write Lee about her fruitless search for Dio through the shelters and the streets, the hot lines and church soup kitchens and crack houses, the continual rounds of her informants.

He was too busy now ducking into the back of bakers and soup kitchens, into the shoemaker's and the milliner's, and studying the refuse thrown in the alleyways, and eyeing the paper parcels which people carried, and staring at women's clothes.