English
Etymology
from the idiomatic phrase live from hand to mouth
Adjective
hand-to-mouth
#having barely enough to survive, being close to poverty
#*1879: Henry James, Eugene Pickering
#*:She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.

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• 2006-12-06 00:58 - RobotGMwikt - robot Adding: [[vi:hand-to-mouth]], [[zh:hand-to-mouth]]

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