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hand-to-mouth

adjective

🔊/ˌhænd tə ˈmaʊθ/

🔊/ˌhænd tə ˈmaʊθ/

[usually before noun]Idioms

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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 left仅够糊口的；勉强维持生计的
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Hand-to-mouth is used with these nouns:
existence
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Idioms

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仅够糊口度日