FROM HAND TO MOUTH

Meaning of FROM HAND TO MOUTH in English

poor, spending every cent on necessities

They lived from hand to mouth, never enjoying luxury or travel.

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

FROM HAND TO MOUTH — phrasal : with provision sufficient only for present needs : precariously always poor and living from hand to mouth vagrants …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FROM HAND TO MOUTH — financial hardship, getting by financially from day to day, poverty
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
(FROM) HAND TO MOUTH — ~ satisfying only one's immediate needs because of lack of money. → hand
Concise Oxford English vocab
FROM HAND TO MOUTH — See: LIVE FROM HAND TO MOUTH.
Slang English vocab
FROM HAND TO MOUTH — Precariously, as want requires, by a bare subsistence, as chance provides, at haphazard, without any margin, by spending the wages …
Dictionary of English Synonyms
FROM HAND TO MOUTH — See: LIVE FROM HAND TO MOUTH.
Словарь английских идиом
FROM HAND TO MOUTH — poor, spending every cent on necessities They lived from hand to mouth, never enjoying luxury or travel.
English Idioms vocab
MOUTH
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HAND
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FROM — _f(r)əm, _f ə m, |främ, |frəm, _främ preposition Etymology: Middle English fram, from, from Old English; akin to Old English …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MOUTH — — mouther , n. — mouthless , adj. n. /mowth/ ; v. /mowdh/ , n. , pl. mouths /mowdhz/ , …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HAND
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MOUTH — I. ˈmau̇th noun ( plural mouths ˈmau̇thz also ˈmau̇z, ˈmau̇ths; in synecdochic compounds like “blabbermouths” ths more frequently ) Usage: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HAND — I. ˈhand noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German hant hand Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MOUTH
Webster English vocab
HAND — noun rate; price. 2. hand ·vi to cooperate. 3. hand ·noun a bundle of tobacco leaves tied together. 4. hand …
Webster English vocab
MOUTH — [mouth] n, pl mouths often attrib [ME, fr. OE muth; akin to OHG mund mouth and perh. to L mentum …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HAND — [hand] n, often attrib [ME, fr. OE; akin to OHG hant hand] (bef. 12c) 1 a (1): the terminal part …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MOUTH
Britannica English vocabulary
MOUTH — noun , verb ■ noun / maʊθ; NAmE / ( pl. mouths / maʊðz; NAmE /) PART OF FACE 1. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAND — / hænd; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun PART OF BODY 1. [ C ] the part of the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FROM — / frəm; strong form frɒm; NAmE frʌm; frɑːm/ preposition HELP NOTE : For the special uses of from in phrasal …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MOUTH — I. mouth 1 S2 W1 /maʊθ/ BrE AmE noun ( plural mouths /maʊðz/) [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HAND — I. hand 1 S1 W1 /hænd/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ hand , ↑ handful ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FROM — from S1 W1 /frəm; strong frɒm $ frəm strong frʌm, frɑːm/ BrE AmE preposition [ Language: Old English ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MOUTH — n. & v. --n. (pl. mouths) 1 a an external opening in the head, through which most animals admit food …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HAND — n. & v. --n. 1 a the end part of the human arm beyond the wrist, including the fingers and …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FROM — prep. expressing separation or origin, followed by: 1 a person, place, time, etc., that is the starting-point of motion or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MOUTH — n. & v. n. (pl. mouths) 1 a an external opening in the head, through which most animals admit food …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HAND — n. & v. n. 1 a the end part of the human arm beyond the wrist, including the fingers and …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FROM — prep. expressing separation or origin, followed by: 1 a person, place, time, etc., that is the starting-point of motion or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MOUTH — n. & v. --n. (pl. mouths) 1. a an external opening in the head, through which most animals admit food …
Oxford English vocab
HAND — n. & v. --n. 1. a the end part of the human arm beyond the wrist, including the fingers and …
Oxford English vocab
FROM — prep. expressing separation or origin, followed by: 1. a person, place, time, etc., that is the starting-point of motion or …
Oxford English vocab
HAND — I. NOUN USES AND PHRASES /hænd/ ( hands) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MOUTH — Pronounced /maʊθ/ for the noun, and /maʊð/ for the verb. The form 'mouths' is pronounced /maʊðz/. ( mouthing, mouthed) Frequency: …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FROM — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses shown …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MOUTH
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HAND — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an ordeal at the hands of sb (= used to say who has made …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FROM
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
MOUTH — (BODY PART) [noun] [C] - the opening in the face of a person or animal, consisting of the lips and …
Cambridge English vocab
MOUTH — See: BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN ONE'S MOUTH, BUTTER WOULDN'T MELT IN ONE'S MOUTH, BY WORD OF MOUTH, DOWN …
Slang English vocab
HAND — See: AT HAND, BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH, BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS ONE, CLEAN …
Slang English vocab
MOUTH — n. 25B6; noun open your mouth : lips, jaws; maw, muzzle; informal trap, chops, kisser; Brit. informal gob, cakehole; N. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
HAND — n. 25B6; noun big, strong hands : palm, fist; informal paw, mitt, duke, hook, meat hook; Zoology manus. the clock's …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MOUTH
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
HAND — n. 1 Slang mitt, paw, US lunch-hook Keep your hands off me, you oaf! 2 help, aid, assistance, helping hand, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
MOUTH — See: BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN ONE'S MOUTH, BUTTER WOULDN'T MELT IN ONE'S MOUTH, BY WORD OF MOUTH, DOWN …
Словарь английских идиом
HAND — See: AT HAND, BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH, BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS ONE, CLEAN …
Словарь английских идиом
TO
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MOUTH
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAND — 1. сущ. 1) а) рука (кисть) to clap one's hands ≈ хлопать, апплодировать to clasp, grab, grasp hand ≈ сжать …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FROM — (полная форма); (редуцированная форма) предл. 1) (указывает на пространственные отношения; может передаваться тж. приставками) от, из, с from here ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MOUTH
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HAND — hand.ogg 1. hænd n _I 1. рука, кисть руки cupped hands - горсть; пригоршня the back of the hand - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FROM — from.ogg frɒm (полная форма); frəm (редуцированная форма) prep 1. в пространственном значении указывает на 1> исходный пункт действия или движения …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MOUTH — 1) входное отверстие 2) устье ( реки, выработки, скважины ) 3) входная часть ( водопроводящего сооружения ) 4) метал. колошник …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
HAND — 1) (механическая) рука 2) захватное устройство; схват 3) кисть ( руки робота ) 4) стрелка ( прибора ) 5) крыло …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
MOUTH — 1) входное отверстие 2) устье (реки, выработки, скважины) 3) входная часть (водопроводящего сооружения) 4) метал. колошник (печи) 5) устье, горловина (конвертера) 6) горлышко (бутылки), горловина …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
HAND — 1) (механическая) рука 2) захватное устройство; схват 3) кисть (руки робота) 4) стрелка (прибора) 5) крыло (семафора) 6) хэнд (внесистемная единица длины) 7) сторона; направление 8) работник, …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
MOUTH — 1) вход 2) дульце 3) колошник 4) раструбный 5) ротовой 6) топогр. устье 7) устьевый • mouth diameter of parachute — диаметр раскрытия купола парашюта mouth of a pipe …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
MOUTH — 1. mouth сущ.; мн. ч. -s 1) а) рот, уста to close, shut one's mouth — закрыть рот to open …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
MOUTH
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HAND — 1. hænd n I 1. рука, кисть руки cupped hands - горсть; пригоршня the back of the hand - тыльная …
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