bread and water
Bare minimum sustenance
Bread and water is the most basic sustenance, associated with deprivation or punishment.
Prisoners were historically kept on bread and water as discipline.
The phrase evokes bare survival without comfort or pleasure: After that extravagant vacation, we'll be living on bread and water for months.
- loafBaked bread shape
- crustHard outer layer
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
rations · basic · bare minimum · stale · sustenance · hunger · punishment · hard labor · dungeon · crumbs · meager · sparse · simple · prisoner · prisoner of war · cell · solitary confinement · subsistence
- FastingRamadan, Yom Kippur, Lenten fasting, intermittent fasting, religious fasting
- penal historyprison, prisons, gaols, jails, penitentiaries
- Penanceconfession booth, act of contrition, contrition, penitent, public penance
- punishmentsjail, prison, timeout, grounded, fine
- LDS Culturegeneral conference, sacrament, endowment, sealing, temple marriage
- military punishmentsflogging, lashing, whipping, court-martial, brig
bread and waterfeast
Elaborate ceremonial meal
banquet · gourmet meal · smorgasbord · lavish spread · buffet
bread and waterfatted calf
Animal fattened for slaughter
milk and honey · royal treatment · feast · wedding feast · king's ransom
bread, water, breads, breaded, breading, breadcrumb, breadcrumbs, waters, watered