starving artist
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈstɑrvɪŋ ˈɑrtɪst/
:
artista hambriento
- The romantic description of a starving artist is poor enticement for many talented adolescents to abandon more traditional, financially secure, and stable careers.
- support starving artists
- poor starving artists
If that wasn't the case, why would the starving artist guitarist that sleeps on his friend's couch be attractive?
- If that wasn't the case, why would the starving artist guitarist that sleeps on his friend's couch be attractive?
- And I, I, I feel far more similar to a starving artist than I do to like a hedge fund Wall Street gal, right?
- One option has you has you being a starving artist, which I think sucks.
- Because many women will be madly in love with the starving artist.
Examples
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So, what, are you gonna go down to L.A. and do the whole starving artist thing for a while?
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Give it to the creative one, the poor little starving artist who never gets time to eat.
Fiction book (1995) -
My dad calls guys like your dad "a starving artist."
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Well, I would say our society has too many starving artists.
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To all those who worry about her becoming a starving artist, she added, "I am looking for something greater than money."
Blog text (30) -
Have you ever been a starving artist, and did it make you brilliant, or just hungry?
Blog text (28) -
And if there's one thing that this city has, it's lots of starving artists.
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Right now I'm a starving artist, but when I'm dead all these paintings will be worth millions.
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If you like what you're reading, don't be afraid to help out a starving artist.
Blog text (1) -
Many famous starving artists found success only after years of struggling to make ends meet.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'starving' (extremely hungry/lacking resources) modifies 'artist', so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer an artist who is very poor or lacks financial resources. The metaphorical use of 'starving' to indicate poverty is common cross-linguistically, making the overall meaning predictable from the constituents.
Etymology
The noun starving artist comes from the strong picture of starving artists in old cities who were so poor they could hardly buy food. In those times many painters and writers chose art over a steady job, so the phrase means 'an artist who lives in poverty'.