live on sth
— Phrasal Verb with live /lɪv/ verbDefinition
MONEY › Money that you live on is the money you use to buy the things that you need: We lived on very little when we were students.
FOOD › to only eat a particular type of food: All summer we live on hamburgers and hot dogs.
(Definition of live on sth from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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