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mouth to feed

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a mouth to feed
someone, especially a new-born baby for whom you must provide food. With three small children and hardly any money, the last thing they needed was another mouth to feed.
See also: feed, mouth
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Babies were unwelcome, the man received them with surly anger, the mother with despair; it was one more mouth to feed, and there was little enough wherewith to feed those already there.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed.
The Adventures of Peter Pan by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
It would be very easy to ruin me; we must be very careful; more saving than ever, with another mouth to feed.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
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