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"Live on the breadline" nghĩa là gì?
20 Aug, 2019
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'Live on the breadline' có từ 'breaaline' là hàng người chờ cứu tế -> cuộc sống rất khó khăn, nghèo khổ, thậm chí phụ thuộc nhiều vào sự cứu trợ, cứu tế thực phẩm
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"Many beekeepers live on the breadline, and if something like this changes things so beekeeping is no longer profitable, there will be huge knock-on effects on farming and food prices."
People affected by the contaminated (nhiễm bệnh) blood scandal "lost everything" and "had to live on the breadline" as they struggled financially, the chairman of the public inquiry says.
Last week, inquiry chairman Sir Brian Langstaff wrote to the Cabinet Office describing how some families had "lost everything" and "had to live on the breadline". He asked the government to take "decisive (quyết định) action" to tackle the issue of financial compensation.
The former prisoners understand what it means to live on the breadline, to scramble and fall foul of the law to survive. "These villagers are just eating the leftovers from the table," Phiri came to realize. "Those people who are above, in power, they are the ones who did this."
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