feast or a famine

Plenty or very little; big success or bad failure.

In this business it's either a feast or a famine.

He is very careless with his money, it is always a feast or a famine with him.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[famine] See: [FEAST OR A FAMINE]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

[either a feast or a famine] See: [FEAST OR A FAMINE]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

[feast one's eyes on] {v. phr.} To look at and enjoy very much. * /He feasted his eyes on the beautiful painting./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

A feast is made for laughter/And wine maketh merry/But money answereth all things. www.sky-net-eye.com

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