hand-to-mouth

Definitions of hand-to-mouth
  1. adjective
    providing only bare essentials
    “a hand-to-mouth existence”
    synonyms:
    meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy
    deficient in amount or quality or extent
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