hand to mouth

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English

Pronunciation

Adjective

hand to mouth (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of hand-to-mouth.

Adverb

hand to mouth (not comparable)

  1. In a hand-to-mouth manner.
    • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)
      Hundreds of thousands of Syrians shelter beneath UN canvas in Jordan. In the irrigated fields of As Safi, these refugees survive hand to mouth, picking tomatoes for $11 a day.
    • 2018, “Deuteronomy 24”, in Eugene H. Peterson, transl., The Message Deluxe Gift Bible‎, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 196:
      Don’t abuse a laborer who is destitute and needy, whether he is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner living in your land and in your city. Pay him at the end of each workday; he’s living from hand to mouth and needs it now. If you hold back his pay, he’ll protest to GOD and you’ll have sin on your books.
    • 2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 42:
      "Meanwhile, we are sitting here starving. Let's not beat about the bush - we are absolutely living hand to mouth now on TfL.

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