live off the fat of the land—
1. use products that one grows for one’s food needs:
- They share a dream of a little place of their own, where they can “live off the fat of the land.”
2. enjoy a comfortable lifestyle:
- He was pretty fed up with these bloated royalists who were living off the fat of the land and off American aid.
live off the land—
1. = live off the fat of the land 1:
- Thousands of Mayan peasants live off the land in the Yucatan, growing maize—a world away from the beach resorts of nearby Cancun.
2. be able to survive from what one finds in the wild:
- Liv ing off the land requires that you get very close to that land. Axes, shovels and fishing gear will be essential to your survival.