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Definition of brown bread in English: brown breadnoun mass nounBread that is light brown in colour, typically made using unbleached or unrefined wholemeal flour. a plate of smoked salmon and brown bread count noun wheatgerm is often used as a dietary supplement and is added to some brown breads Example sentencesExamples - As I took my seat a glass of water appeared, along with some superb homemade brown bread.
- Her daily routine was to wake about 4.30am and have a cup of tea and thin brown bread and butter, in bed.
- No matter where she was she still found time for knitting, gardening and making brown bread.
- Brown bread came in smaller loaves, either light or dark brown.
- Chowder should be made rich and thick, served with doorstop slices of home-made brown bread and Irish butter.
- Margaret kept John in order with a healthy diet, eggs from their own chickens, homemade brown bread, jam, yoghurt.
- Bakeries carry a variety of breads, with brown bread and white soda bread served most often with meals.
- Elegantly sliced brown bread and butter would be perfect with this mild-mannered salad, or perhaps some crusty French bread.
- Brown bread is served with the clams, and watermelon for dessert completes the feast.
adjective British rhyming slang (of a person) dead. if the bite isn't treated within a short period of time, you'll be brown bread Example sentencesExamples - "I'd love to play until I was brown bread, but not playing throughout the year has probably helped me adjust," he said.
- He shouted to me that he'd find me and that 'I was brown bread'.
- After the alarm was raised about the fire, he telephoned her mother and allegedly told her: "Neil is brown bread."
- The exclamation, "Old Hovis is brown bread", would have made him laugh, I'm sure.
- Rather than appealing to hooligans' better nature, he should threaten them with physical violence: "If you start a ruck, you're brown bread."
Definition of brown bread in US English: brown breadnoun Bread that is light brown in color, typically made using unbleached or unrefined whole wheat flour. a plate of smoked salmon and brown bread wheatgerm is often used as a dietary supplement and is added to some brown breads Example sentencesExamples - No matter where she was she still found time for knitting, gardening and making brown bread.
- Chowder should be made rich and thick, served with doorstop slices of home-made brown bread and Irish butter.
- Brown bread came in smaller loaves, either light or dark brown.
- Margaret kept John in order with a healthy diet, eggs from their own chickens, homemade brown bread, jam, yoghurt.
- Brown bread is served with the clams, and watermelon for dessert completes the feast.
- Elegantly sliced brown bread and butter would be perfect with this mild-mannered salad, or perhaps some crusty French bread.
- Bakeries carry a variety of breads, with brown bread and white soda bread served most often with meals.
- Her daily routine was to wake about 4.30am and have a cup of tea and thin brown bread and butter, in bed.
- As I took my seat a glass of water appeared, along with some superb homemade brown bread.
adjective British rhyming slang (of a person) dead. if the bite isn't treated within a short period of time, you'll be brown bread Example sentencesExamples - Rather than appealing to hooligans' better nature, he should threaten them with physical violence: "If you start a ruck, you're brown bread."
- "I'd love to play until I was brown bread, but not playing throughout the year has probably helped me adjust," he said.
- He shouted to me that he'd find me and that 'I was brown bread'.
- The exclamation, "Old Hovis is brown bread", would have made him laugh, I'm sure.
- After the alarm was raised about the fire, he telephoned her mother and allegedly told her: "Neil is brown bread."
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