hand to mouth is an adverb meaning "with barely enough money for immediate needs". It carries one recorded sense.
with barely enough money for immediate needs
“they lived form hand to mouth”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hand to mouth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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