Both Uses
hand-to-mouth
in
Of Human Bondage
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- He knew besides that the Athelnys lived from hand to mouth, and with their large family had neither space nor money to entertain a stranger.†
Chpt 101-102 *
- The people who dwelt here lived from hand to mouth.†
Chpt 113-114
Definitions:
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(1)
(hand-to-mouth) a subsistence level of poverty such that all resources are needed just to survive and none are left to save or invest for the future
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)