B1🍝 Food
Essere a pane e sale
to live on next to nothing
Literal Translation
"To be on bread and salt"
What it means
To live an extremely frugal life
Example in context
"Da studente vivevamo a pane e sale, ma ci siamo divertiti lo stesso."
"As students we lived on almost nothing, but we still had fun."
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