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Phrase(s): live off the land to live by eating only the food that one produces from the land; to survive by gathering or stealing food, fruits, berries, eggs, etc., while traveling through the countryside. • We lived off the land for a few years when we first started out farming. • The homeless man wandered about, living off the land.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs