lean times

*lean times (ahead)

Fig. a future period of lowered income or revenue; a future period when there will be shortages of goods and suffering. (*Typically: be ~; cause ~; have ~; mean ~.) The economy is going sour which means lean times ahead.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bea	BEE	English
Akshay	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada
Nikita (1)	nee-KEE-tah (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Prudence	['pru:dəns]
Alexandra	[.ælig'za:ndrə]
Violeta	byo-LE-tah (Spanish)	Romanian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Lithuanian