brown bread

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brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)

1. Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread.
2. Whole-wheat bread.

   Synonym: wheat bread

brown bread (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, Cockney rhyming slang) dead
   • 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:

     I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.

• See also Thesaurus:dead