To eat the seed corn

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	To eat the corn which should be saved for seed, so as to forestall starvation; - a desparate measure, since it only postpones disaster.
	any desparate action which creates a disastrous situation in the long-term, done in order to provide temporary relief.

See also: Seed Seed

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