hand-to-mouth

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von hand-to-mouth im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

müsrif

geleni anında harcayarak

savurgan

(deyim) Karın tokluğuna

karnını zor doyuran

yoksul

kıt kanaat geçinen

yoksul

karnını zor doyuran

kıt kanaat geçinen

kıt kanaat geçinerek

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von hand-to-mouth im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

having barely enough to survive, being close to poverty

She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.

(deyim) Having or providing only the bare essentials

A hand-to-mouth existence.

providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth existence"

{s} having barely enough for daily needs, having nothing to spare, providing only the necessities; precarious

A hand-to-mouth existence is a way of life in which you have hardly enough food or money to live on. The worst-paid live a hand-to-mouth existence without medical or other benefits. Hand-to-mouth is also an adverb. penniless students living hand-to-mouth. if you have a hand-to-mouth existence, you have only just enough money and food to live

with barely enough money for immediate needs; "they lived form hand to mouth"

with barely enough money for immediate needs; "they lived form hand to mouth

with barely enough for daily needs, with nothing to spare

Etymologie

() from the idiomatic phrase live from hand to mouth