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Definition of hand-to-mouth adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

hand-to-mouth

adjective
 
/ˌhænd tə ˈmaʊθ/
 
/ˌhænd tə ˈmaʊθ/
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  1. 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 left
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryHand-to-mouth is used with these nouns:
    • existence
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Idioms
live (from) hand to mouth
  1. to spend all the money you earn on basic needs such as food without being able to save any money
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brink
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