释义 |
hand-to-mouthˌhand-to-ˈmouth adjective  - Alice thought it sounded a hand-to-mouth existence.
- As always, this winter most labourers will live a hand-to-mouth existence until the grapes are ready for thinning in late August.
- Therefore, in the bleak aftermath of war, he lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London.
if you have a hand-to-mouth existence, you have just enough money and food to live |