Possible Clues:

• Suffer from want of food
• Division, piece, bit, component, role.
• Five have a good look round, but go hungry
• '... ___ a fever'
• Even if you look hard around five you won't get enough
• Even the best of actors may begin to get not enough
• "__ a cold ..."
• Go without putting letter, ultimately, in post
• Be in want of a shining beginning
• Get nothing as a matter of course