have nothing to eat

Synonyms

starve famish

Examples

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing. Muddy Waters

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything. Diane von Furstenberg

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing. Pope Francis

Words in the phrase

have nothing to eat

Close letter words and terms

have nothing in common have nothing on someone have nothing to do with have nots have nowhere to run have nursing care