hand-to-mouth

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hand-to-mouth

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Involving immediate consumption (especially of food) with no provision for the future; having barely enough to survive, in poverty She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.

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Español	a salto de mata, al dia
Français	au jour le jour
Deutsch	von der Hand in den Mund (leben)

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@misc{hand_to_mouth_2026,
  title = {hand-to-mouth},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hand-to-mouth},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}