| 单词 | hand-to-mouth |
| 释义 | hand-to-mouth (once / 36593 pages) adj WORD FAMILY hand-to-mouth USAGE EXAMPLESHe was living hand-to-mouth in a series of short-term rentals, and eventually moved into his car in a Bronx parking lot. New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) The virus is normally spread in faeces through hand-to-mouth contact and can be picked up from surfaces such as toys or dirty nappies. BBC(Aug 24, 2016) Now you have to understand that twenty pennies might be a good bit of money for some little ragamuffin troupe living hand-to-mouth. Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) adj providing only bare essentials a hand-to-mouth existence Syn meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy deficient in amount or quality or extent |
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