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live off en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(idiomatic, transitive) To depend on financially.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To survive by consuming only a certain thing or things.
When I was a student, I lived off baked potatoes.
I live off nothing in this world / Except the thick grey air that chains itself / Swirls all around and engrains itself
1985, “World Without Warning”, in Pressure Points, performed by Anne Clark:
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live on