hand-to-mouth in the PONS Dictionary

hand-to-mouth Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to live from hand to mouth
jedva sastavljati kraj s krajem

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Poor hand-to-mouth households, by contrast, typically have incomes of $21,000 and no assets.
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He lived a hand-to-mouth existence, never knowing where he would spend the next night.
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Their hand-to-mouth existence meant there were days without food.
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And into that hand-to-mouth world step payday loan companies... so those families end up working even more to service debts...
labourlist.org
The ex-prisoners, unable to make a living off the land found themselves forced to revert to crime or to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence until they died.
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The current reality for female cyclists, however, is a hand-to-mouth existence compared to their male counterparts as teams, and races, struggle to make ends meet.
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It is a hand-to-mouth existence; but they have got used to it, with their own small pleasures and distant dreams.
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Through the depression he lived hand-to-mouth as a traveling salesman.
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The diner's fry cook assists him... it's his father, who has been living a hand-to-mouth existence and suffers from alcoholism.
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Her family were poor, living hand-to-mouth; she shared a bed with her two siblings in a series of three-room houses without running water.
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