subsistverb [ I ]
uk/səbˈsɪst/us/səbˈsɪst/formalto get enough food or money to stay alive, but no more:
The prisoners were subsisting on a diet of bread and water.
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Coping and not coping
- balancing act
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- cut
- head
- hold
- keep body and soul together idiom
- keep the wolf from the door idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- live (from) hand to mouth idiom
- manage
- roll
- sink or swim idiom
- stride
- subsistence
- take sth in your stride idiom
- wolf
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