hand-to-mouth existence
Example Sentences
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"But he threw it in the water because he was fed up with how we are treated. We are living a hand-to-mouth existence and never given a chance."
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2020
Locked down for two months in crumbling apartments in a mob-infiltrated town north of Naples, their hand-to-mouth existence has grown even more precarious with no work, no food and no hope.
From Washington Times • May 2, 2020
Even so, life as a professional string quartet has been a hand-to-mouth existence.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2020
Almost 25 years after the end of the war, Bosnian citizens are trapped in a hand-to-mouth existence, with some 23% estimated to be living at or below the absolute poverty line.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2019
Billy had failed to get regular employment; so she saw much of him, and they lived a prosperous and happy hand-to-mouth existence in the tiny cottage they rented.
From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack
