Usually means: Abundance or scarcity, no middle.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. feast-or-famine: Merriam-Webster
  2. feast or famine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. feast or famine: Wiktionary
  4. feast-or-famine: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. feast-or-famine, feast or famine: Dictionary.com
  6. Feast or Famine (Chuck Ragan album), Feast or Famine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. feast or famine: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Feast or Famine: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (feast or famine)

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

Similar:
feeding frenzy, feastful, cornucopia, abundary, surfeit, plentifulness, profusion, hyperabundance, abundance, extreme, more...

Opposite:
consistency, stability, regularity

Types:
feast and famine, economic cycles, drought and flood, more...

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Similar:
feeding frenzy, feastful, cornucopia, abundary, surfeit, plentifulness, profusion, hyperabundance, abundance, extreme, more...

Opposite:
consistency, stability, regularity

Types:
feast and famine, economic cycles, drought and flood, more...



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