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'We are living hand-to-mouth, for I cannot earn bread for my family and my wife is sewing clothes for our bread and butter,' he lamented. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387232' }}, The duration of From Hand to Mouth is 1320.0 seconds. { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_btmslot' }}]}, addPrebidAdUnits(pbAdUnits); { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_topslot' }}]}, pbjs.que.push(function() { bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776142', position: 'btf' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_leftslot' }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776358', position: 'atf' }}, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot2' }}]}]; iasLog("exclusion label : wprod"); bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776336', position: 'btf' }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971080', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387232' }}, {code: 'ad_btmslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_btmslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/btmslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: 'cdo_stickyslot_mobile_flex' }}, name: "unifiedId", { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '19061233' }}, ga('send', 'pageview'); Add live (from) hand to mouth to one of your lists below, or create a new one. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_leftslot_160x600' }}, See full dictionary entry for hand COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346688' }}, Thanks for your vote! }, },{ { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 250] }}, name: "_pubcid", }); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [300, 250] }}, See also: hand, live, mouth. {code: 'ad_topslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, iasLog("setting page_url: - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/live-from-hand-to-mouth"); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [320, 50] }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776160', position: 'atf' }}, To be extremely poor, having only enough money to provide food and shelter each month. googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); 'max': 36, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_btmslot' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446382' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, Anyway, everyone in America has the right to protest. 'max': 3, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [300, 250] }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446385' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '708801' }}, 'increment': 0.05, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_btmslot' }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776156', position: 'atf' }}, }, This phrase first appeared in the mid 18th century as hand over hand. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446382' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, googletag.cmd.push(function() { { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, ; 1 Brenner, Gail Abel. var mapping_leftslot = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([1063, 0], [[120, 600], [160, 600], [300, 600]]).addSize([963, 0], [[120, 600], [160, 600]]).addSize([0, 0], []).build(); 2 0. { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_btmslot' }}]}, This term, which dates from about 1500, implies that one has so little to live on that whatever comes to hand is consumed. Hmmm. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195453', size: [320, 50] }}, expires: 60 { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [336, 280] }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446383' }}, { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_leftslot_160x600' }}, Corballis: From mouth to hand: Gesture, speech, and the evolution of right-handedness 204 BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (2003) 26:2 about 100,000 to … { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195454', size: [300, 250] }}, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("sfr", "cdo_dict_english"); This is the British English definition of live from hand to mouth.View American English definition of live from hand to mouth.. Change your default dictionary to American English. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_rightslot' }}, googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(false); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 50] }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195467', size: [320, 50] }}, 'min': 8.50, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_rightslot' }}]}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, iasLog("criterion : cdo_ptl = entry-mcp"); { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: 'cdo_topslot_mobile_flex' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346688' }}, We truly appreciate your support. Define hand to mouth. Home Altered Images Living Hand to Mouth. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448836' }}, googletag.pubads().set("page_url", "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/live-from-hand-to-mouth"); googletag.cmd.push(function() { I've never heard ass to mouth before in AE (not that I actually speak AE, but I do hear quite a lot of it); and I've certainly never heard arse to mouth in BE. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_topslot_728x90' }}, 'cap': true { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot1' }}]}, At that time, there was so little food that whenever people found some form of sustenance, it went straight from their hands to their mouths. “I subsist, as the poor are vulgarly said to do, from hand to mouth,” wrote the poet William Cowper (1790). googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { if (!event.isEmpty && event.slot.renderCallback) { event.slot.renderCallback(event); } }); { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448834' }}, Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_Billboard' }}, { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_rightslot_flex' }}, } {code: 'ad_contentslot_2', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [336, 280]] } }, Facebook; Twitter; ... the Torah was promulgated by Moses, but its origin is Divine. I have a wife and two children and we live from hand to mouth on what I earn. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776130', position: 'btf' }}, This man is living a hand-to-mouth existence. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, {code: 'ad_contentslot_1', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [336, 280]] } }, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_pc", "dictionary"); dfpSlots['contentslot_1'] = googletag.defineSlot('/2863368/mpuslot', [[300, 250], [336, 280], 'fluid'], 'ad_contentslot_1').defineSizeMapping(mapping_contentslot).setTargeting('si', '1').setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'mid').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_topslot' }}]}, Lv 5. var mapping_contentslot = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([746, 0], [[300, 250], [336, 280], 'fluid']).addSize([0, 0], [[300, 250], [320, 100], [320, 50], [300, 50], 'fluid']).build(); var mapping_topslot_b = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([746, 0], [[728, 90]]).addSize([0, 0], []).build(); { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_topslot' }}]}, {code: 'ad_contentslot_1', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [336, 280]] } }, It's certainly an uglier variant of hand to mouth.I didn't make the connexion with degrading sex in your first example. {code: 'ad_btmslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_btmslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/btmslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, ga('require', 'displayfeatures'); Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words. The term hand to mouth is hyphenated when used as an adjective before a noun, as in hand-to-mouth. Some sources say that this idiom comes from a period of famine in Britain. { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot1' }}]}, ga('set', 'dimension3', "default"); Nowadays, a person who lives a life in which he /she spends every single penny earned and it is hard to save anything for future, we refer this idiom for such people. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971079', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, 'min': 3.05, expires: 365 Hand To Mouth, living from Meaning of Idiom ‘Live (from) Hand to Mouth’ To live from hand to mouth means to only have enough money to buy the utmost essentials that one presently needs; to have barely enough money to survive and no ability to save so that one is always on the verge of not having food, shelter, etc. var pbAdUnits = getPrebidSlots(curResolution); { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_ptl", "entry-mcp"); Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge.Learn the words you need to communicate with confidence. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_mpuslot_flex' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654192' }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971068', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, name: "pbjs-unifiedid", Living hand-to-mouth or on the breadline is a hard existence where you never know where your next meal is coming from and might just have enough to get by, but nothing more. type: "html5", googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_c", ["jobs_education_resumes"]); { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776144', position: 'btf' }}, dfpSlots['stickyslot'] = googletag.defineSlot('/2863368/stickyslot', [], 'ad_stickyslot').defineSizeMapping(mapping_stickyslot).setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'btm').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); → live Examples from the Corpus live from hand to mouth • Teacher To live from hand to mouth. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [320, 100] }}, Pay check to Pay check - money goes in the hand and only goes towards food to put in your mouth. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: 'cdo_btmslot_mobile_flex' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654151' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654174' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [120, 600] }}, { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: 'cdo_mpuslot2_mobile_flex' }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_leftslot' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [336, 280] }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, By Rabbi Peretz Rodman January 10, 2012, 12:00 am 0 Edit. userSync: { { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_rightslot_flex' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_HDX' }}, adj. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_t", "doing-and-achieving"); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195453', size: [300, 250] }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971070', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [120, 600] }}, expires: 365 googletag.enableServices(); Living Hand to Mouth. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, live (from) hand to mouth definition: 1. to have just enough money to live on and nothing extra: 2. to have just enough money to live on…. The notion that language evolved not from animal cries but from manual and facial gestures—that, for most of human history, actions have spoken louder than words—has been around since Condillac. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, }, name: "pubCommonId", dfpSlots['btmslot_a'] = googletag.defineSlot('/2863368/btmslot', [[300, 250], 'fluid'], 'ad_btmslot_a').defineSizeMapping(mapping_btmslot_a).setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'btm').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); }] { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, iasLog("exclusion label : mcp"); var mapping_rightslot = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([746, 0], [[300, 250]]).addSize([0, 0], []).build(); { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_mpuslot_flex' }}, {code: 'ad_rightslot', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_rightslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/rightslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, {code: 'ad_stickyslot', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_stickyslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/stickyslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 50], [320, 50], [320, 100]] } }, storage: { "Hand-to-Mouth Existence." } {code: 'ad_leftslot', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_leftslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/leftslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[120, 600], [160, 600], [300, 600]] } }, 'min': 31, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971063', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 250] }}, hand-to-mouth synonyms, hand-to-mouth pronunciation, hand-to-mouth translation, English dictionary definition of hand-to-mouth. var pbHdSlots = [ { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_Billboard' }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971065', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, var mapping_houseslot_b = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([963, 0], []).addSize([0, 0], [300, 250]).build(); Hand-to-mouth definition, offering or providing the barest livelihood, sustenance, or support; meager; precarious: a hand-to-mouth existence. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776160', position: 'atf' }}, British English: hand-to-mouth ADJECTIVE A hand-to-mouth existence is a way of life in which you have hardly enough food or money to live on. {code: 'ad_topslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 50], [320, 50], [320, 100]] } }, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_btmslot_300x250' }}, }, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, The phrase “living from hand to mouth” turns up in a 1641 translation of Guillaume Du Bartas, “ The Handie-Crafts,” in Du Bartas, His Diuine Weekes and Workes (1641): If they desire a Medler for their food, They must goe seek it through a fearfull wood ; Or a brown Mulbery, then the ragged Bramble { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448835' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [320, 50] }}, {code: 'ad_contentslot_2', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [320, 100], [320, 50], [300, 50]] } }, 'max': 8, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, } Anonymous. if(pl_p) var mapping_topslot_a = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([746, 0], []).addSize([0, 550], [[300, 250]]).addSize([0, 0], [[300, 50], [320, 50], [320, 100]]).build(); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [320, 50] }}, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_stickyslot' }}]}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448834' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346688' }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '541044957', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, Phrases.com. storage: { Usage explanations of natural written and spoken English, 0 && stateHdr.searchDesk ? 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