Examples of 'hand to mouth' in a sentence
Meaning of "hand to mouth"
Refers to a situation where an individual or a group of people barely have enough resources, typically money or food, to survive. It implies living with minimal or no savings or surplus
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- Alternative form of hand-to-mouth
- In a hand-to-mouth manner.
How to use "hand to mouth" in a sentence
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hand to mouth
We poor people lead a hand to mouth existence.
Hand to mouth existence is your life.
We lived from hand to mouth in those days.
All these guys are living hand to mouth.
This living hand to mouth is wearing me out.
But he too lives from hand to mouth.
He lives hand to mouth and never saves a cent.
And the patrimonial hakims are hand to mouth.
He lives from hand to mouth without saving a penny.
Poland is literally living from hand to mouth.
We lived hand to mouth for a very long time.
Every family there lives hand to mouth.
Hand to mouth is putting it mildly.
Any products which go from hand to mouth.
From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man.
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I have never lived from hand to mouth.
Mine was a hand to mouth existence.
All those years living hand to mouth.
Still hand to mouth.
Eggs can be transmitted from hand to mouth.
Theirs is a hand to mouth existence.
Most of the time he was living hand to mouth.
Surviving is hand to mouth existence.
But they were living from hand to mouth.
Eating hand to mouth.
Consider what it does to a family living hand to mouth.
Just from hand to mouth.
You are always complaining about living hand to mouth.
We are living hand to mouth as it is.
The rest of the people live from hand to mouth.
I am living hand to mouth as it is.
The flow of money has been hand to mouth.
I am hand to mouth.
Otherwise we live from hand to mouth.
Avoid hand to mouth and hand to eye contact until hands have been thoroughly washed.
Tom lives from hand to mouth.
Mogadishu is a frightful ruin whose population has been reduced to living hand to mouth.
They live from hand to mouth.
They live from hand to mouth and never calculate what may happen tomorrow.
She is living from hand to mouth.
It is very much a hand to mouth existence for most people in Manipur.
Tom is living from hand to mouth.
I have been living from hand to mouth on whatever I could borrow from sailors and dockers.
He was then living from hand to mouth.
The man lives from hand to mouth and never saves a cent.
While the poor they eat from hand to mouth.
We were basically living from hand to mouth and our situation was quite pathetic.
Traces of hazardous chemicals can be carried from hand to mouth.
I live from hand to mouth.
Avoid swallowing the product or accidentally transferring it from hand to mouth.
