live hand-to-mouth
жить очень бедно, "перебиваться с хлеба на квас"
After her husband's death Silvia was living a hand-to-mouth existence.
Другие идиомы:
- join hands
- in good hands
- shake hands on (something)
- cannot see one's hand in front of one's face
- live from hand to mouth
- hands off
- caught with one's hand in the cookie jar
- firm hand
- hands down
- keep one's hands off (someone or something)
- bite the hand that feeds (someone)
- get out of hand
- hand (something) to (someone) on a silver platter
- in hand
- be hand in hand