Definition of feast-or-famine
: marked by extremes (as of success and failure or prosperity and depression)
ski-area operators agree that theirs is uniquely a feast-or-famine business— William Gilman it follows … that mineral exploitation is a feast-or-famine industry— H. A. Meyerhoff
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