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
Caridad	kah-ree-DHAHD	Spanish
Mirjam	MIR-yahm (German), MEER-yahm (Finnish)	Dutch, German, Finnish, Estonian, Slovene
Decima	DEK-i-ma	Ancient Roman
Denis	de-NEE (French), DEN-is (English), DE-nis (German)	French, Russian, English, German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Romanian, Croatian
Arto	AHR-to	Finnish
Parnel	-	English (Archaic)