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hand to mouth

ADVERB
  1. with barely enough money for immediate needs
    they lived form hand to mouth

How To Use hand to mouth In A Sentence

  • Now in Lebanon, he and his family are safe but existence is hand to mouth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Constantly haunted by images of hellhounds, loneliness, and an unreasonable wanderlust, Johnson lived hand to mouth, playing at plantations, house parties and street corners.
  • Lucien was living from hand to mouth, spending his money as fast as he made it, like many another journalist; nor did he give so much as a thought to those periodically recurrent days of reckoning which chequer the life of the bohemian in Paris so sadly. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  • For infants who did not receive a dummy, alternate soothing methods were promoted (for example, facilitation of hand to mouth action promoting self quieting behaviour).
  • Inevitably some of the Puffs get lost on route from hand to mouth.
  • Sachs argues, that a syndrome of unpropitious circumstances enchain the poorest countries in a hand to mouth existence that prevents them investing in their future.
  • Poor Frog," says he, "is in hard circumstances, he has a numerous family, and lives from hand to mouth; his children don't eat a bit of good victuals from one year's end to the other, but live upon salt herring, sour curd, and borecole. History of John Bull
  • It's farcical situation, more so now that so many clubs are living hand to mouth.
  • Nearly all of the smallholdings in Spiti are subsistence farms; hand to mouth to belly and out again.
  • they lived form hand to mouth
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