Usually means: Insufficient food; meager meal portions.
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▸ noun:  (sometimes figurative) Meagre rations.

Similar:
table scrap, slim pickings, scantling, scant, single, pabulum, skerrick, scran, scrimption, shoestring, more...

Opposite:
plenty, abundance, surplus

Phrases:
to be on short commons, more...

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Similar:
table scrap, slim pickings, scantling, scant, single, pabulum, skerrick, scran, scrimption, shoestring, more...

Opposite:
plenty, abundance, surplus

Phrases:
to be on short commons, more...



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