from hand to mouth
常见例句
- In early days, many people live from hand to mouth.
在早年，许多人都是过着勉强糊口的日子。 - The government is running the economy from hand to mouth.
现任政府正在管理着衣食住行各方的经济生活。 - When I had no job last winter, I had to live from hand to mouth.
去年冬天没找到工作，我不得不过着勉强糊口的生活。 - This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth.
- Some even live from hand to mouth.
- Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do.
ECONOMIST: Burgeoning bourgeoisie - The driver sprang from behind the wheel and, pressing the palm of his hand to the woman's mouth, half carried, half dragged her back to the car and folded her body into the back seat.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends' - As though out of kindness to Cambara, Zaak holds his cigarette away from her—in his left hand—and he keeps the fingers of his right hand close to his mouth, almost covering it.
NPR: Somalia's Farah: Humanizing a Broken Place 返回 from hand to mouth