iron rations
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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All three agreed that relief funds were now being spread so thin that those being helped were on "iron rations."
From Time Magazine Archive
Disappointed we lie down and consider whether we couldn’t have a go at the iron rations.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
When we took account of stock and found that none of us had brought along "iron rations", we discovered that we were all nearly starved.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes
Shopkeepers, particularly those who sold oysters, fresh fish, fruits, cheese, all delicacies whatsoever to victims of iron rations in the trenches, could retire on their profits unless they died from exhaustion in accumulating more.
From My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer
Yet there were times when the infantry had a bare day's supply with them, though they had their iron rations to fall back upon.
From How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine by William Thomas Massey
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