live on sth
— phrasal verb with live uk/lɪv/us/lɪv/verb
(MONEY)
B2 If you live on an amount of money, that is the money that you use to buy the things that you need:
We lived on very little when we first got married.
More examples
- I can live on my inheritance.
- The job provides enough to live on.
- His earnings aren't enough to live on.
- They live on the money they earn from growing tobacco.
- It's hard to imagine what these people live on.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Paying money
- ante
- chargeable
- congestion charge
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- disgorge
- expense
- fork
- fork out sth
- overspend
- pay up
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- square
- tip
- worth
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(FOOD)
B2 to only eat a particular type of food:
I more or less live on pasta.
More examples
- They live on a diet of maize.
- Our cat lives on chicken and milk.
- You can't live on chips.
- They live on fast food.
- They have to live on what they can grow themselves.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Eating
- al desko
- ate
- binge
- binge eating
- bite
- consume
- feast
- feast on sth
- feeder
- feeding
- finish
- gorge
- pig out
- put sth away
- scarf
- scoff
- shovel sth into your mouth idiom
- stoke
- swallow
- tuck
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