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French
Etymology
Literally, “to yell "starvation!"”.
Pronunciation
Verb
crier famine
- (figuratively, of a stomach) to rumble, to poor-mouth, to cry poor, to cry poverty, to plead poverty
- Mon estomac crie famine. ― My stomach thinks my throat has been cut.
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