from hunger

prepositional phrase

Of poor quality; tolerable only in desperate circumstances.

“She looked good, but as an actress she was strictly from hunger. http://www.hulu.com/watch/77882/the-donna-reed-show-pardon-my-gloves?c=1011”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. idiomaticOf poor quality; tolerable only in desperate circumstances.

    She looked good, but as an actress she was strictly from hunger. http://www.hulu.com/watch/77882/the-donna-reed-show-pardon-my-gloves?c=1011

    4 more examples

    "That's the place for you, the San Berdoo. I live there so I ought to know. The owner's strictly from hunger. Come on, I'll get you fixed up swell."

    1939, Nathanael West, The Day of the Locusts, page 17

    The play went on and on with people shouting and using dirty language. The jokes were from hunger and there was only one sexy scene

    1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, page 159

    This place is a dump. I mean your bathrooms are from hunger. Where's the Jacuzzi? Where's the 'his and her' sinks? Where's the towel warmer?

    2007, Paula Marantz Cohen, Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs, page 70

    "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 were from hunger, but said, "That's what marriage brokers are for...."

    2008, Paul M. Levitt, Come with me to Babylon, page 115
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see from, hunger.
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APA

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MLA

“from hunger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/from%20hunger. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “from hunger,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/from%20hunger.

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