The garrison and the entire population are already on extremely short commons.

In April we found the elk weak after the short commons and hard living of winter.

People manage on short commons, he thought in the middle of his book.

You do not look to me as though this army were on short commons.

It is this place, and food after so long on short commons, nothing more, he told himself.

I really did work, and went on short commons of sleep.

With a similar vigilance, the West might survive indefinitely on no worse than short commons.

They have been kept on pretty short commons, poor things!

They are good in themselves and after our very short commons they were of course better by far.

An that's likely another reason we've been on short commons.