- if you have a hand-to-mouth life, you spend all the money you earn on basic needs such as food and do not have anything leftOxford Collocations DictionaryHand-to-mouth is used with these nouns:
- existence
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See hand-to-mouth in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarylive (from) hand to mouth
- to spend all the money you earn on basic needs such as food without being able to save any money
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