הִגִּיעַ לְפַת לֶחֶם, בָּא עַד כִּכַּר לֶחֶם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To become very poor/be impoverished/ down to one's last crust

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He arrived at a situation that was so difficult that he had no food to survive.

("A man who is a stranger is not good, but a man who is a stranger will be saved by a loaf of bread" - Proverbs 22:1, and so on: "And he asked every guest, and if possible, he would come down with a favor and peace from table to table, until he came to a loaf of bread" - Sha'i Agnon/ Sifurei HaBe'Shat/ Bin Laila)