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live on

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live on something
to depend on something for sustenance. (Compare this with live off someone or something.) I can't live on bread and water. We can hardly live on $500 a week.
See also: live
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"But you must not call me 'Princess'," she said; "for after this I shall live on the little farm with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em, and princesses ought not to live on farms.
The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with"; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
Dashwood, how excessively comfortable your mother-in-law and her daughters may live on the interest of seven thousand pounds, besides the thousand pounds belonging to each of the girls, which brings them in fifty pounds a year a-piece, and, of course, they will pay their mother for their board out of it.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
 
 
 
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