Hand-to-mouth Definition

hăndtə-mouth
adjective
Having or providing only the bare essentials.
A hand-to-mouth existence.
American Heritage
Characterized by a barely sufficient source of food or income.
Webster's New World

Having barely enough to survive, being close to poverty.

Wiktionary

Origin of Hand-to-mouth

  • from the idiomatic phrase “live from hand to mouth"

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Hand-to-mouth Sentence Examples

  • There was no security for "any one, and every one was tempted to live from hand to mouth.

  • Thus, here as elsewhere, we see a vacillating hand-to-mouth policy, at the mercy of a passion for power or for sensual gratification.

  • It is estimated that there are no less than 35,000 people living from hand to mouth in the utmost misery, partly in the extensive catacombs beneath the city.

  • In view of this approaching revolution, both the Church and the world were regarded as living from hand to mouth.

  • He was drifting about with no higher aim than a " hand-to-mouth " policy, whilst the Holy See could feel the superiority with which the consciousness of centuries of tradition had endowed it, and took full advantage of the mistakes of its opponent.

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