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hand-to-mouth
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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)
  • Magdalena gave birth to a baby girl, Amantina, and for years they lived hand to mouth.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I'm tired of living hand to mouth.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • We live from hand to mouth, as you can see ....there is no wealth here, such as your goods might have brought.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Every one could not be as helter skelter, hand to mouth as she was.†  (source)
  • She'd been living hand-to-mouth in a cardboard lean-to a few blocks from the seawall when she was picked up.†  (source)
  • They were people of a sort very common in America today, who live respectably from hand to mouth.†  (source)
  • 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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