Usually means: Maintain basic survival, avoid poverty.
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  1. keep the wolf from the door: Merriam-Webster
  2. keep the wolf from the door: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keep the wolf from the door: Collins English Dictionary
  4. keep the wolf from the door: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. keep the wolf from the door: Wiktionary
  6. keep the wolf from the door: Dictionary.com
  7. keep the wolf from the door: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. keep the wolf from the door: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. keep the wolf from the door: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (keep the wolf from the door)

verb:  (idiomatic) To ward off poverty or hunger.
verb:  (idiomatic, humorous, euphemistic) To delay sexual ejaculation.

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