from hunger | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Of poor quality; tolerable only in desperate circumstances.She looked good, but as an actress she was strictlyfrom hunger.[1]1939, Nathanael West,The Day of the Locusts, page17:"That's the place for you, the San Berdoo. I live there so I ought to know. The owner's strictlyfrom hunger. Come on, I'll get you fixed up swell."1959,Mordecai Richler,The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, page159:The play went on and on with people shouting and using dirty language. The jokes werefrom hungerand there was only one sexy scene2007, Paula Marantz Cohen,Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs, page70:This place is a dump. I mean your bathrooms arefrom hunger. Where's the Jacuzzi? Where's the 'his and her' sinks? Where's the towel warmer?2008, Paul M. Levitt,Come with me to Babylon, page115:"The men in this hamlet are either married, or worn out, or ignorant, or religious zealots, or indigent." Esther was forced to agree that the boys in this town werefrom hunger, but said, "That's what marriage brokers are for...."; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seefrom,‎hunger.

Examples:

EN: Somewhere in the horse fell from hunger.
ES: En algún lugar el caballo cayó de hambre.
EN: Suffering from hunger
ES: Sufriendo de hambre
EN: In these homes one suffers not only from hunger but also from cold.
ES: En estas viviendas, no sólo se sufre de hambre, también de frío.
EN: Every year 1 million unemployed, every day 100 suicides. All from hunger and affliction
ES: Cada año 1 millón de desempleados, cada día 100 suicidios... todos por el hambre y la angustia.
EN: We'll be safe from hunger as long as we live Longer!
ES: Estaremos a salvo del hambre para toda la vida.
EN: - And death from hunger if I don't.
ES: - Si no, moriré de hambre.
EN: Strictly from hunger.
ES: Sólo es de hambre.
ES: ¡Únicamente por hambre!
EN: He's already a dead duck or he wouldn't need the fifty. And he's spent it, you're both free from hunger. So what?
ES: Y cuando vaya a morir no los necesitará y se los gastará y los dos moriríais de hambre. ¿Y qué?
EN: That's how the food is. We suffer from hunger.
ES: Así es la comida: pasamos hambre.
EN: We'll get him from hunger and fatigue.
ES: Lo cogeremos por hambre y fatiga.
EN: To protect us from hunger and cold.
ES: ¿Para que sirve el dinero? , para protegernos del hambre y el frío
EN: Criminy, I mean, who in the world would suspect a gal magician with a vaudeville show that's strictly from hunger.
ES: Repámpanos, ¿quién va a sospechar de una maga... con un número cutre de vodevil?
EN: - We are from hunger - We are from hunger
ES: Tenemos hambre
ES: Tenemos hambre
EN: Almost 75% of the people were bloated from hunger.
ES: Casi el 75% de la gente estaba hinchada por el hambre.
EN: Oh brother, is this from hunger. (WHISTLES)
ES: ¡Oh hermano, esto es hambre!

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