Смысл: famine 
famine [ʹfæmın]
n
<Í> 1. голод (стихийное бедствие )
in the years of famine - в голодные годы
2. голодание
to die of famine - умереть с голоду
3. острый недостаток (чего-л. )
coal famine - острая нехватка угля, угольный голод
♢ famine prices - несообразно высокие цены; дороговизна
<Í> 1. голод (
2. голодание
3. острый недостаток (
famine Идиома
either feast or famine
Idiom(s): either feast or famineTheme: AMOUNT
either too much (of something) or not enough (of something). (Also without either. Fixed order.)
• This month is very dry, and last month it rained almost every day. Our weather is either feast or famine.
• Sometimes we are busy, and sometimes we have nothing to do. It's feast or famine.
Feast today, famine tomorrow
If you indulge yourself with all that you have today, you may have to go without tomorrow.feast or a famine|a feast or a famine|either a fea
n. phr. Plenty or very little; big success or bad failure. In this business it's either a feast or a famine. He is very careless with his money, it is always a feast or a famine with him.famine
faminesee feast or famine.
feast or famine
feast or famineAlso, either feast or famine. Either too much or too little, too many or too few. For example, Free-lancers generally find it's feast or famine—too many assignments or too few, or Yesterday two hundred showed up at the fair, today two dozen—it's either feast or famine. This expression, which transfers an overabundance or shortage of food to numerous other undertakings, was first recorded in 1732 as feast or fast, the noun famine being substituted in the early 1900s.
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