AllWords.com Home
English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search

 
  
Your Query of 'hand-to-mouth' Resulted in 1 Matches
Displaying Items 1 through 1
Definitions
hand-to-mouth
adjective 
  1. having barely enough to survive, being close to poverty
    • 1879: Henry James, Eugene Pickering
    • :She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a fashion.
Etymology: from the idiomatic phrase live from hand to mouth

     
 
  

 Find:
  Words Starting With:
  Words Ending With:
  Words Containing:
  Words That Match:

 
 Translate Into:
  
Dutch   French   German
  
Italian   Spanish

green quotes and commentary
Browse the Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 green quotes and commentary
  green quotes and commentary

Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License
Allwords Copyright 1998-2008 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.