hand-to-mouth
手到擒来,手拉手,手把手地教,手到擒来的
Definitions
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- : offering or providing the barest livelihood, sustenance, or support; meager; precarious: a hand-to-mouth existence.
Examples
Eating disorders, on the other hand, are driven largely by biological processes that occur on the inside.
“After the New York mentality, it is the ultimate contrast to see people making things by hand,” he said.
Thankfully, his assistant knows these roads like the back of his hand.
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
The collection includes kimono capes and hand woven jump overalls.
After relievedly giving the pistol to the nearest soldier, he stumbled quickly over to Brion and took his hand.
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
The aged woman made no reply; her eyes still studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand.
He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.