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Idiom Feast or Famine
Example Last week we made over $100 on our car wash; this week only one car came. It's either feast or famine.
Meaning great success or total failure; either too much or too little of something
Origin This catchy phrase suggests the opposites of having too much or too little of something. "Feast" and "famine" are antonyms (words with opposite meanings) and also begin with the same sound (alliteration). This expression started out as "feast or fast" in the 1730s, but later "fast" was changed to "famine," which means about the same thing but doesn't sound as good with "feast." Why the switch of words? Nobody today really knows.

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