on the verge of starvation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofon,vergeandstarvation
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on
preposition
uk/ɒn/us/ɑːn/
used to show that something is in a position above something else and touching it, or that something is moving into such ...
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verge
noun[C]
uk/vɜːdʒ/us/vɝːdʒ/
the edge or border ...
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starvation
noun[U]
uk/stɑːˈveɪ.ʃən/us/stɑːrˈveɪ.ʃən/
the state of having no food for a long period, often ...
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(Definition ofon,vergeandstarvationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Men and women are on thevergeofstarvationand desperation.
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Good, genuine useful people living on thevergeofstarvationand imbecile and dissolute people living in luxury and ease.
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They are permitted to live on thevergeofstarvation.
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Hundreds of our men have been on thevergeofstarvation.
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That means 12,000,000 of people on thevergeofstarvation.
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It came to this, that wherever they went those officers found that the populations were on thevergeofstarvation.
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Those who are out of work get no uncovenanted benefit as in this country, and in consequence large numbers are on thevergeofstarvation.
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These refugees were on thevergeofstarvation, and were a source of unhappiness to themselves, and of danger in a sufficiently precarious situation.
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The only crisis that there is in this country is that there are 3,000,000 people living on thevergeofstarvation.
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At that time the whole of the labourers in the agricultural districts were on thevergeofstarvation.
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Some of the facts revealed in their letters show that they are living on thevergeofstarvation.
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We have too many people in the country at present on thevergeofstarvation, and all the time this work is urgently needed.
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None of them is in a position to buy electrical power or anything else, and they are all on thevergeofstarvation.
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If you get into the third, fourth or fifth week of the strike, you get men and women on thevergeofstarvation.
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With the pensions they are given at present they are on thevergeofstarvation, or on the verge of going into the workhouse.
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Milk is practically non-existent, the people are on thevergeofstarvation, the cattle are dying, there is no pasture.
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It is even more essential if we seek a world in which half the population is not on thevergeofstarvation.
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You have all these additional expenses thrust upon people who are living on thevergeofstarvation.
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The whole world is on thevergeofstarvation, and we are fooling about.
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Hundreds of people have been virtually ruined and are on thevergeofstarvation.
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