hand-to-mouth

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hand-to-mouth

Having, providing, or characterized by the bare minimum of money, food, or resources to survive, with little or nothing else to spare. I enjoy being a college student, but I'm so sick of this hand-to-mouth lifestyle.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (from) hand to mouth
  • hand to mouth
  • hand to mouth, from
  • bread and water
  • hang a BA
  • hang a BA (at someone)
  • hang a BA at someone
  • Ba
  • a skeleton crew/staff/service
  • skeleton crew
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Honey and Clover
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She has been called an archetypal bohemian, but her hand-to-mouth Greenwich Village existence during the Depression was not unusual, and she reacted to the situation as many did, by looking for socially responsible solutions--Marxism and communism among them--to the period's brutal and inequitable conditions.
ALICE NEEL
Infants exploit their hand-to-mouth existence--whatever their hands grasp gets jammed into their mouths--to learn how to communicate with precisely timed words and gestures, according to other investigators.
Building Blocks of Talk