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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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