starvation diet

"Right now it's on a bit of a starvation diet."

"It's a starvation diet, like skipping two meals a day for the next seven years."

She got by on a starvation diet of loyalty these days.

Stringency is one thing, and a starvation diet quite another.

What would a prolonged period of starvation diet do to such a nervous system?

For most of the past two decades, the United States has put foreign aid on a starvation diet.

Collectors, too long on a starvation diet, went into a feeding frenzy.

It's just a financial starvation diet in terms of budget support for these parks.

But to building owners the bill looks like a starvation diet.

The average Russian is only two hundred calories a day from a starvation diet.