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hand-to-mouth

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ADJECTIVE
  1. providing only bare essentials
    a hand-to-mouth existence

How To Use hand-to-mouth In A Sentence

  • House of Lords reform is up for debate next year, council elections need reform, the balance of power is out of kilter, but it's all hotch-potch and hand-to-mouth.
  • Here they eke out a hand-to-mouth existence in makeshift settlements around the water desalination plants that the government has set up. Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction
  • The worst-paid live a hand-to-mouth existence without medical or other benefits.
  • In addition, childhood behaviors like repetitive hand-to-mouth activity and pica predispose the child to ingestion.
  • `But surely it can't be all hand-to-mouth nightmares -- trying to sell stuff at exhibitions? THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • What bank, loan shark, or regular citizen would fund a desperado living a hand-to-mouth existence under false pretenses? OUTCAST
  • It was the beginning of a hand-to-mouth career as a freelance journalist. THIS TIME LOVE
  • What bank, loan shark, or regular citizen would fund a desperado living a hand-to-mouth existence under false pretenses? OUTCAST
  • Low wages mean a hand-to-mouth existence for many people.
  • People living a hand-to-mouth existence are turning to ' buy-back stores' to get their hands on ready money.
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