Idiom
feast or famine
Meaning
A situation in which something is always either extremely abundant or in extremely short supply.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My freelance work is always feast or famine.”
“The restaurant business is feast or famine, with busy weekends followed by very quiet weekdays.”
“The life of a seasonal farmer is often one of feast or famine, depending entirely on the unpredictable nature of the annual harvest.”
Examples
simple
“My freelance work is always feast or famine.”
contextual
“The restaurant business is feast or famine, with busy weekends followed by very quiet weekdays.”
complex
“The life of a seasonal farmer is often one of feast or famine, depending entirely on the unpredictable nature of the annual harvest.”
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