hand-to-mouth existence

Life for most of humanity until the 20th Century was a hand-to-mouth existence.

However, they were not very successful, living virtually a hand-to-mouth existence.

They are members of the surplus labor army, and must be content with a hand-to-mouth existence.

We can't meet the challenges of the 21st century with this hand-to-mouth existence."

Their hand-to-mouth existence meant there were days without food.

"The hand-to-mouth existence makes it simpler to define your life.

He lived a hand-to-mouth existence, never knowing where he would spend the next night.

With the 90's, an even sterner reality took hold, far more complicated than hand-to-mouth existence.

"It was a hand-to-mouth existence, but I met a lot of artists that way," he remembers.

Former bass player Seong-wook lives a hand-to-mouth existence working two jobs.

After the success of 1969, Williams was now low on funds, living a hand-to-mouth existence from race to race.

He took home excellent report cards, but his mother never saw them as his way out of their hand-to-mouth existence.

If allocated properly, aid has the potential to help millions of people escape a hand-to-mouth existence.

Sagging sales aggravated what was already a hand-to-mouth existence for many independents.

But she had been reduced to a hand-to-mouth existence which even traveling folk would have scorned.

The school lives a hand-to-mouth existence, paying its operating expenses solely with the $3,000-a-head tuition.

While millions of poor families still led hand-to-mouth existences, they always had; local control, whatever its problems, was not unambiguously worse.

As always, this winter most labourers will live a hand-to-mouth existence until the grapes are ready for thinning in late August.

But such a hand-to-mouth existence has obvious disadvantages.

The Maas couple continued to live a hand-to-mouth existence struggling in Hollywood.

Meanwhile, Ingrid and her mother lead a hand-to-mouth existence in a succession of scruffy towns.

It led a hand-to-mouth existence, handicapped by staff turnover, changes of strategy and a lack of capital.

But while I spoke bravely about freedom and choice, my suburban upbringing rejected a hand-to-mouth existence on the road.

Despite such popularity, they led a hand-to-mouth existence for the first year or so in Melbourne, often relying on the hospitality of fans and friends.

I see the characters as sort of modern-day frontiersmen in the way they live a hand-to-mouth existence under extreme conditions."