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hunger hunger drives the wolf out of the wood even the fiercest animal will be driven from shelter by necessity; proverbial saying, late 15th century. A similar saying is found earlier in French.
hunger is the best sauce food which is needed will be received most readily. The saying is recorded in English from the early 16th century, but a similar thought is found in Cicero's De Finibus, ‘hunger is the spice of food.’
hunger march a march undertaken by a group of people in protest against unemployment or poverty, especially any of those by unemployed workers in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s.

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