live hand to mouth



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.
See also: hand, live, mouth

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Johannayo-HAH-nah (German), yo-HAHN-nah (Danish, Dutch), YO-hahn-nah (Finnish)German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, English, Late Roman
Shahjahan-Urdu
Nadab-Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
TealeTEELEnglish (Rare)
Onyeka-Western African, Igbo
Miran-Slovene