hand-to-mouth

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Involving immediate consumption (especially of food) with no provision for the future; having barely enough to survive, in poverty
    — She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *handuz
Proto-West Germanic *handu
Old English hand
Middle English hond
English hand
English to
English mouth
English hand-to-mouth
From hand + to + mouth.
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