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.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ashton	['æʃtən]
Stacy	STAY-see	English
Lavonne	-	English
MargarÉTa	MAWR-gaw-ray-taw	Hungarian
Mirica	-	Croatian
Daniyah	-	Arabic