live from hand to mouth
(verb) to satisfy one’s basic needs because of a lack of money
Example Sentences:
The University students are living from hand to mouth because they don’t have a lot of money from their part-time jobs.
Jana lived from hand to mouth while studying for her Masters.
While Rebecca is unemployed she willlive from hand to mouth, so she decided to cancel her vacation.
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Similar idioms:
- bite the hand that feeds one
- put one’s money where one’s mouth is
- live up to
- hand-me-down
- give someone a hand
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- get one’s hopes up
