English Explanatory Dictionary

hand-to-mouth

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Involving immediate consumption (especially of food) with no provision for the future; having barely enough to survive, in poverty

Pronunciation

en-au-hand-to-mouth.ogg

Word forms

hand-to-mouth

Etymology

From hand + to + mouth.

Related words

eke out get by live paycheck to paycheck scrape by subsist threadbare
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