from hand to mouth

常見例句

In early days, many people live from hand to mouth.
在早年，許多人都是過著勉強(qiáng)糊口的日子。
The government is running the economy from hand to mouth.
現(xiàn)任政府正在琯理著衣食住行各方的經(jīng)濟(jì)生活。
When I had no job last winter, I had to live from hand to mouth.
去年鼕天沒找到工作，我不得不過著勉強(qiáng)糊口的生活。

Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do.
ECONOMIST: Burgeoning bourgeoisie
The driver sprang from behind the wheel and, pressing the palm of his hand to the woman's mouth, half carried, half dragged her back to the car and folded her body into the back seat.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'
As though out of kindness to Cambara, Zaak holds his cigarette away from her—in his left hand—and he keeps the fingers of his right hand close to his mouth, almost covering it.
NPR: Somalia's Farah: Humanizing a Broken Place