Idiom
brown bread
SlangCockney rhyming slang
Meaning
dead
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If that old car breaks down again, it is brown bread.”
“The ancient computer finally stopped working, so I suppose it is brown bread now.”
“After the company lost its primary funding and all its major clients, it was clear the business was brown bread.”
Examples
simple
“If that old car breaks down again, it is brown bread.”
contextual
“The ancient computer finally stopped working, so I suppose it is brown bread now.”
complex
“After the company lost its primary funding and all its major clients, it was clear the business was brown bread.”
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