OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 40971

hand-to-mouth

Meanings (ES + gloss)
a salto de mata • al dia
Involving immediate consumption (especially of food) with no provision for the future; having barely enough to survive, in poverty
She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.
The Migrant Fleet has little economic base, operating in a state of perpetual "hand-to-mouth". While quarian ships include light manufacturing and assembly plants, they lack heavy…
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