feast or famine

Noun

Meaning

feast or famine (uncountable)

(idiomatic) A situation in which something is always either extremely abundant or in extremely short supply.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Wagons typically carried at least one large water keg, citation Reginald Horsman, Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion (University of Missouri Press, 2008), pp. 128-31. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Feast of Weeks feast on feast one's eyes feast that occurs on a different date feast today famine tomorrow feast with a fixed date