hand-to-mouth existence
Example Sentences
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"But he threw it in the water because he was fed up with how we are treated. We are living a hand-to-mouth existence and never given a chance."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2020
Restless handheld cinematography and brisk, sometimes almost breathless editing, give a sense of the exhausting rhythm of Nico’s hand-to-mouth existence and the superhuman juggling act required to muster the charisma that used to come naturally.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2020
Locked down for two months in crumbling apartments in a mob-infiltrated town north of Naples, their hand-to-mouth existence has grown even more precarious with no work, no food and no hope.
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2020
The military seemed like the only way out of a hand-to-mouth existence, so Harris enlisted in the branch that seemed least dangerous.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
He would not emigrate to the provinces, as Englishmen have done to Canada and Australia, but instead went to the cities, where he led a hand-to-mouth existence in a type of tenement house.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
