hand to mouth

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hand-to-mouth (h

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adj.

Having or providing only the bare essentials: a hand-to-mouth existence.

hand to mouth adv.

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Adv.

hand to mouth - with barely enough money for immediate needs; "they lived form hand to mouth"

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Hand hand-to-mouth handstand Improvidence poverty Precariousness scrape want			That his uncle should arrive to treat with me of these things was a solution that, strictly speaking, I ought now to have desired to bring on; but I could so little face the ugliness and the pain of it that I simply procrastinated and lived from hand to mouth. Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context He knew besides that the Athelnys lived from hand to mouth, and with their large family had neither space nor money to entertain a stranger. Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context The winter went, and the spring came, and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month's wages between them and starvation. The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context			Hand money Hand Movements hand mower hand on hand organ hand out hand over hand over fist Hand over hand Hand over head Hand plant hand press hand pump hand puppet Hand running Hand sail hand saw Hand screen Hand screw hand setting hand shovel Hand staff Hand stamp hand throttle hand to hand hand to mouth hand tool hand towel Hand tree hand truck Hand vise hand waving hand wear Hand work hand's-breadth hand, foot, and mouth disease hand- hand-build hand-crafted hand-down hand-dye hand-eye coordination hand-foot-and-mouth disease hand-held hand-held computer hand-held microcomputer hand-hewn hand-hole Hand-hole plate hand-knit hand-knitted			hand something in Hand staff Hand stamp Hand stamp Hand stand Hand stand hand stripping hand stripping hand stripping hand stripping hand sugar refractometer Hand Surgical Associates Hand Switch Hand Talk Hand Target Designator Hand Thats Rocks the Cradle Hand Therapy Certification Commission hand throttle hand tie hand time Hand Timed hand timer hand timer hand timer hand to hand to hand hand to hand Hand to hand combat Hand to hand combat Hand To Heart hand to mouth hand to on a plate hand to on a platter hand tool hand tool hand tool Hand Tool Dexterity Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Hand tools Hand tools Hand tools Hand Tools Institute hand towel hand tramming Hand transplant Hand transplantation Hand transplantion Hand tree hand trituration hand trituration hand truck hand truck hand type hand up hand up hand up hand up hand up Hand Valve Hand Vascular Pattern Recognition System hand viewer

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