hand-to-mouth existence

It’s still pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence for him.

In the midst of this hand-to-mouth existence, with jobs not available and people forced to trade their belongings, the appearance of posters quoting President Vladimir Putin's observations on the future of life in Russia feels like an added insult, Toma says.

While Wolves can call on the services of Euro 2016 winner Joao Moutinho and £35.6m club-record signing Fabio Silva at Chorley, they were living a hand-to-mouth existence in 1986.

Like 100,000 other emigres who have returned home amid the pandemic, Meza has been pushed back into the hand-to-mouth existence he fled to escape the hyperinflation, shortages and unemployment created by President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

"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."