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Definition of hand-to-mouth adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

hand-to-mouth

adjective

[usually before noun]

if you have a hand-to-mouth existence, you spend all the money you earn on basic needs such as food and do not have anything left

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live (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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