live from hand to mouth
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Emotionally, financially, her vulnerable heroines live from hand to mouth.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2016
We cannot live from hand to mouth and from month to month in this world of change and turmoil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Were it not for long-term contracts in the auto industry, for example, countless auto suppliers would live from hand to mouth, not knowing from one day to the next if they could continue operating.
From Time Magazine Archive
“We live from hand to mouth, as you can see...there is no wealth here, such as your goods might have brought.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
The potato, above all other crops, enables the cultivator to live from hand to mouth, and coupled with a landlord system which takes away all above mere subsistence, this “de-moralizing esculent” aided the apparent overpopulation.
From Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons
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