slum it/be slumminginformalPOOR to spend time in conditions that are much worse than you are used to – often used humorously 过穷日子,过简陋生活〔常为幽默用法〕
Jeremy doesn’t slum it when he goes away.
杰里米出门在外是不会亏待自己的。
Examples from the Corpus
slum• You just can not go slumming, because slummingpretends that slums aren't real.• She made it clear that she was just slumming for a while in this business.• With other upper-middle-class young men who were studyingart, Toulouse-Lautrec began slumming it in bohemian Montmartre.• Perhaps they were also saying - you can not go slumming, not in New York.