hand-to-mouth

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Adjective hand-to-mouth has 1 sense

hand-to-mouth - providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth existence"
Antonym: ample (indirect, via meager)

Adverbial hand-to-mouth has 1 sense

hand to mouth - with barely enough money for immediate needs; "they lived form hand to mouth"

Definitions from the Web

Hand-to-Mouth

Definition

Adjective: characterized by poverty or a lack of financial security, living only from one paycheck or source of income to the next.

Noun: the state or condition of living from one paycheck or source of income to the next.

Examples

Adjective:

After losing his job, John found himself in a hand-to-mouth existence, struggling to make ends meet.
The hand-to-mouth lifestyle can be extremely stressful and unpredictable.

Noun:

Many families in the impoverished neighborhood were stuck in a cycle of hand-to-mouth.
She was tired of living hand-to-mouth and decided to take control of her finances.

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