"lean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Billy, during these lean days, must be supporting life on bread, bean soup, and water.
- These are lean days in this depressed southern Utah town of 652 people.
- In leaner days, scrambling for outside work had been a necessity.
- She had never known a lean day in her life.
- Those were lean and dire days, but the country didn't give up on its schools.
- In a touch left from the lean, early days, the office is still furnished pool-house style.
- You can stay here, or travel and use it as a haven to come back to in lean days.
- But the war came, and her death, and these lean days.
- I don't want to part with it, but these are lean days.
- It was typical of John during those lean days.
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