Hand to Mouth (Hand-to-Mouth) : 근근이 먹고 사는, 풀칠하기도 바쁜, 그날 벌어 그날 먹는, 하루 벌어 하루 먹는
Live (from) Hand to Mouth : (저축은 고사하고) 입[목구멍]에 풀칠하기도 바쁘다, 하루살이 생활을 하다, 간신히 지내다
Hand-to-mouth existence : 간신히 연명하는 생활
1)
If you live (from) hand to mouth, you have the bare minimum or the baremunimum of money or the bare munimum of resources or food
you've got just enought to survive but nothing else
a hand-to-mouth existance, when money comes in, you spend it immediately because there are a million things you need and you can afford 10 of them
that is to exist hand to mouth
a hand-to-mouth existence
this could also just talk about food as in you are always so hungry that whenever you get anything to eat
you eat it immediately and then you keep looking for something else to eat
if you a re poor then you have a hand-to-mouth lifestyle
you live hand to mouth
you exist hand to mouth
it's having owned just enough normally it's just enough money to live
low wages means a hand-to-mouth existence for many people
to live on a hand-to-mouth basis, not really the greatest of ways
it's something that only satisfies you immediate needs bucause you don't have enough food or enough money to think about the future
you can't make provisions for the future because you don't really have enough now
maybe this is to live day to day
it's to have nothing to spare beyond the basic necessities
the poor fertility of the soil means many of the local farmers live hand to mouth
you hardly have enough to live on
your lifestyle is very insecure and very uncertain
a lot of students live hand to mouth
they've got just enough money to pay for their immediate needs or maybe just not quite enough
something that gives the barest livelihood, the barest support
this iss a very precarious way of living
you can't plan ahead, you can only decide what to do from day to day
you are in poverty
you have the bare minimum of resources to survive
2)
one of the problems of government is the hand-to-mouth way that they deal with problems
with today's problem today and we let's not look at the future. Let's just leek at today's problem
to improvise hand to mouth to resolve the current problems but they are not looking to the future
it's something that is consumed immediately
immediate consumption
Formality : 4.5
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