live from hand to mouth

Fig. to live in poor circumstances. When both my parents were out of work, we lived from hand to mouth. We lived from hand to mouth during the war. Things were very difficult.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mahthildis	-	Ancient Germanic
Leith	-	English (Rare)
Isobel	-	Scottish
Ikram	-	Arabic
Suman	-	Bengali, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Nepali
Leyla	-	Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, English (Modern)