short rations
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Even for poetry - accustomed to existing on short rations - things were looking bleak.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019
Not only are the Cambodians starving, but even the Vietnamese troops are said to be on short rations.
From Time Magazine Archive
On short rations, eating penguins and the last of the dogs, the officers and men dragged the ship's three boats, loaded with gear, northward on thin, drifting ice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Met's Wagnerian short rations would be more endurable if, as happened during World War I, the public developed an antipathy to German music.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lot of times they were on very short rations, eating just hardtack and water day after day.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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