hand-to-mouth
adjective /ˌhænd tə ˈmaʊθ/
/ˌhænd tə ˈmaʊθ/
[usually before noun]Idioms - if you have a hand-to-mouth life, you spend all the money you earn on basic needs such as food and do not have anything leftOxford Collocations DictionaryHand-to-mouth is used with these nouns:
- existence
Idioms
live (from) hand to mouth
- to spend all the money you earn on basic needs such as food without being able to save any money