Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of breadline English)
WordNet
n. a queue of people waiting for free food [syn: breadline]
Usage examples of "bread line".
If it comes to war or the bread line they'll have the ordinary folk behind them.
A few commissions still dribbled out occasionally, and a group of architects hovered about them with the dignity of a bread line.
Weve pushed them and shoved them and lumbered them with machines till theyre afraid the next clanking item down the pike is going to put them on the bread line.
It interrupted a beautiful dream: Heller and Krak were in a bread line in New York and a Manco Devil was standing there with a soup ladle, not only refusing them food but also banging them expertly over the head with the sharp edge.
A scattered few may still have a pittance, but the majority, after they have paid their income tax and their land tax and all their other taxes and invested in one or two of the get-rich-quick schemes thrown together for their benefit by bright-eyed gentlemen in the City, are generally pretty close to the bread line.