As a freelancer, I live hand to mouth - $10,000 would make a huge difference to me.

I suppose most people think theater men live hand to mouth, taking what they can get.

The people who dwelt here lived from hand to mouth.

They live hand to mouth and get no pension or help off the state.

But we can't go on living from hand to mouth.

No one in the movement made more than spare change, and many lived hand to mouth.

After living from hand to mouth for some years, he died of a rare heart disease.

Many stores in areas where people have to live from hand to mouth were open.

I can live from hand to mouth, but I cannot do that to a wife and family.

They were people of a sort very common in America today, who live respectably from hand to mouth.