Definitions | hand-to-mouth |
| adjective - 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 fashion.
Etymology: from the idiomatic phrase live from hand to mouth
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