live hand to mouth
Example Sentences
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Increasingly, people live hand to mouth, buying a tomato here, a few onions there as they manage to scrape together enough bolivars for just the basics.
From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025
Even with the entire family working, there’s often not enough money for food and they live hand to mouth on credit from shopkeepers.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023
And for daily labourers who live hand to mouth, it is just as bad.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2023
It hit the poor, many of whom live hand to mouth, particularly hard.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2022
Most of us live hand to mouth: we don't save, we don't invest.
From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2013
