Main line
Main line noun - The principal route of a transportation system.
Poor
Poor adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.
Both terms in one sentence
- The gateway to northern Japan, millions of poor farmers and workers rode the rails from the Tohoku region and Hokkaido along the Tohoku Main Line in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, arriving at Ueno Station in search of a better life in Tokyo.
Source: Useful Notes / Tokyo Train Lines
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Poor and Main line. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/main_line/poor
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