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live hand to mouth

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live (from) hand to mouth
to have just enough money to live on and nothing extra My father earned very little and there were four of us kids so we lived from hand to mouth.
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We can't expect people to live hand to mouth not knowing whether their jobs are safe," he said.
We live hand to mouth and day by day, our existence now lies within the numbers of grocery and financial calculations of our fiscal year.
 
 
 
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