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She lives hand-to-mouth.
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We landed on a world already seeded by the poor buggers who'd gone indigenie two centuries before and were living hand to mouth and cudgel to brain wherever they could.† (source)
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"Tata Nzolo!" we sing, and I wonder what new, disgusting sins we commit each day, holding our heads high in sacred ignorance while our neighbors gasp, hand to mouth.† (source)
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The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."† (source)
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Magdalena gave birth to a baby girl, Amantina, and for years they lived hand to mouth.† (source)
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After a couple of months, I was living pretty much hand to mouth.† (source)
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Gollum watched every morsel from hand to mouth, like an expectant dog by a diner's chair.† (source)
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The only ghosts I let in were local ones, the smoky traces of people I knew and the dinge of my own somber shadow, New York ghosts in every case, the old loud Bronx, hand-to-mouth, spoken through broken teeth—the jeer, the raspberry fart.† (source)
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I'm tired of living hand to mouth.† (source)
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Now you have to understand that twenty pennies might be a good bit of money for some little ragamuffin troupe living hand-to-mouth.† (source)
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We live from hand to mouth, as you can see ....there is no wealth here, such as your goods might have brought.† (source)
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But what help are you going to be to these people on Brewster while you're living hand-to-mouth on file-clerk jobs waiting for a revolution?† (source)
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Every one could not be as helter skelter, hand to mouth as she was.† (source)
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She'd been living hand-to-mouth in a cardboard lean-to a few blocks from the seawall when she was picked up.† (source)
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They were people of a sort very common in America today, who live respectably from hand to mouth.† (source)
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Before our marriage, she had moved in circles of relative wealth and comfort, a life very different from the often hand-to-mouth existence of the freedom fighter.† (source)
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