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
Ciel	-	Various
Carolus	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Kobe (2)	-	Various
Hideyoshi	hee-de-yo-shee	Japanese
Erazem	-	Slovene
Bozho	-	Medieval Slavic