Idiom
brown bread
Meaning
Dead.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Old Fred is brown bread, God rest him.”
“The gangster warned that if anyone talked to the police, they'd be brown bread.”
“By the time the ambulance arrived, the poor soul was already brown bread, his story ended in that grimy alley.”
Examples
simple
“Old Fred is brown bread, God rest him.”
contextual
“The gangster warned that if anyone talked to the police, they'd be brown bread.”
complex
“By the time the ambulance arrived, the poor soul was already brown bread, his story ended in that grimy alley.”
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