"lean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Until the 17th century, Frenchmen had looked upon peas as poor men's rations, to be dried and stored against lean winters.
- A rich season meant prosperity enough to carry the town through the lean winter.
- Now is when you should be fattening up to survive the lean winter ahead, like a bear.
- They crave starchy food, a throw-back behavior from our grazing ancestors who had to live off their fat during the lean winter months.
- It would be a cold summer, and a lean winter.
- Fish dried to take them through a lean winter, some woven lengths of wool.
- At best we've only the prospect of a lean winter, and I fear for the worst if these past months are any indication.
- Every detail was seen to with most exacting care, for a spoiled hunt made a lean winter.
- Above the Wall, a lean winter is a killing winter.
- Indian cornmeal meant survival for many early settlers, who otherwise would have probably starved during the lean winters.
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