hand-to-mouth

But 100 miles away in Lhasa, the Treasure of the Plateau company is transforming this hand-to-mouth livelihood into a serious business.

We lived from hand to mouth, juggling what supplies we had, trying to keep the multitudes who demanded Peptide 7 as happy as we could.

They are neither rich, inheriting enough to escape the struggle for existence , nor poor, living from hand to mouth, or season to season .

That was how people began to use the idiom "living hand to mouth" to mean "living a poor life" .

Lao Wu, a 40-year-old worker, got only a hand-to-mouth income, when he stayed in his hometown.

We lived from hand to mouth, never knowing where the next meal was coming from.

In Waterloo, Li lived the hand-to-mouth life of a grad student.

My family never had much money when I was a child. Although we always lived from hand to mouth, I had no hard feelings toward my parents.

Mary, don't think nothing of asking me for money. We're just living from hand to mouth. You are totally off base!

After he lost his job, he had to live hand to mouth for a couple of months.

Mrs Hiyale lives hand to mouth, subsisting in a slum on 100 rupees a day with the help of a local charity.

E. g. : After my husband was made redundant, we had to live from hand to mouth until he found another job.

Mr. Johnson got very little pay, and the family lived from hand to mouth when he had no job.

Fred lost his job and is now living hand to mouth.

She lived alone by herself, making a living from hand to mouth by picking things from rubbish heaps.

For farmers, a hand-to-mouth existence is made worse by routine land seizures and orders to work without pay for the military.

The under-funded fill-in teachers literally live hand to mouth and cannot afford basic living essentials.

I can't believe I'm down and out. I'm living hand to mouth and pinching pennies.

Critics argue that the government's hand-to-mouth policymaking is self-defeating, and illustrates its general lack of planning.

Hand-to-mouth buying. Computer screen itself can only have three kinds of small light spots in different colors.

Less-skilled women are trapped in poorly paid jobs with hand-to-mouth child-care arrangements.

This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth .

So those living hand to mouth do indeed work for food, but unhappily just not nutritious food.

We had together consumed all my pistols, and now just rubbed on from hand to mouth.

Eg. When I had no job last winter, I had to live from hand to mouth.

chris is working at mcdonalds earning minimum wage . he is really living from hand to mouth.

Most people were living form hand to mouth. How could they?

These people live from hand to mouth on berries and roots .

They save no money , but no stocks, and live from hand to mouth.

Don't spend too much money. We are just living from hand to mouth.

That poor family has been living from hand to mouth for years.

We've been living hand to mouth ever since I lost my job.

Some even live from hand to mouth. They only have enough money for the most important things.

He got very little pay so he lived from hand to mouth.

For him, let him work as long as those who live from hand to mouth, he will be satisfied.

They were people of a sort very common in America today, who live respectably from hand to mouth.

They have always lived from hand to mouth.

They lived from hand to mouth.

They live from hand to mouth.

He lives from hand to mouth .

We live from hand to mouth because my father is an accountant with a low salary.

Eg. Since she only has a temporary job. She has to live from hand to mouth.

The government is running the economy from hand to mouth.

I found myself living hand to mouth for file first time in years.

I have been living from hand to mouth.

Never forget how many Chinese live hand-to-mouth.

When I was first married I did not have a job, and we had to live from hand to mouth.

They are living from hand to mouth. They can not afford to buy an expensive car.

live a hand to mouth existence