hand-to-mouth existence
Example Sentences
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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
Even so, life as a professional string quartet has been a hand-to-mouth existence.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 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
That means life in an underground metal band is frequently a hardscrabble, hand-to-mouth existence.
From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2017
During all this hand-to-mouth existence I was calling on theatrical managers.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.
