It showed an eagerness for adventure, a readiness for the
hand-to-mouth, which the care she took of her home and her love of good housewifery made not a little remarkable.
Billy had failed to get regular employment; so she saw much of him, and they lived a prosperous and happy
hand-to-mouth existence in the tiny cottage they rented.
Sir Robert Walpole, ruling the country with unscrupulous absolutism, had now put an end to the employment of literary men in public life, and though Johnson's poem 'London,' a satire on the city written in imitation of the Roman poet Juvenal and published in 1738, attracted much attention, he could do no better for a time than to become one of that undistinguished herd of
hand-to-mouth and nearly starving Grub Street writers whom Pope was so contemptuously abusing and who chiefly depended on the despotic patronage of magazine publishers.
The VAT exemptions intend to reduce the cost of education for low-income families and to give them 'a real chance to escape the spiral of
hand-to-mouth existence,' Marcos explained.
We have been living
hand-to-mouth ever since we signed up to your very questionable venture.
As the impact created by the idea would remain confined to one that would generate
hand-to-mouth income, which might eradicate poverty, but it would do less in improving the indicators of economic growth.
Belonging to a
hand-to-mouth family, thirty-year-old Fazal Rehman has been bedridden since he had critically injured a road accident on highway in 2016.
Parents will also send their children to expensive schools only for the sake of making them speak in English, even if they have to live
hand-to-mouth after paying such high fees.
'We are living
hand-to-mouth, for I cannot earn bread for my family and my wife is sewing clothes for our bread and butter,' he lamented.
THE recent resignation of Thomas Piquemal, the financial director of French energy company EDF, because he believes the proposed new Hinkley Point nuclear power station will bankrupt the company, is yet another nail in the coffin of the UK government's anti-renewables short-term
hand-to-mouth socalled energy policy.
It was how in Freddy Krueger's name did a bunch of East End residents who are supposedly living
hand-to-mouth manage to afford such lavish costumes for Halloween?
What's left is funneled into Eden, a powerful city under a protective dome where residents feast on fresh foods and enjoy a life of luxury while citizens of the Badlands struggle and live
hand-to-mouth. Tess herself was born an Edinite, but when her mother dies she rebels against this inequality, joins a rebel group, and uncovers a government plot that tests her resolve and perceptions.