To live from hand to mouth
Жить по принципу из руки да в рот (т. е. что заработал, то съел).
Жить из кулака в рот. Жить впроголодь. Еле сводить концы с концами.
Другие пословицы:
- Keep your mouth shut and your ears open
- Better die standing than live kneeling
- A stitch in time saves nine
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- Time is money
- Hungry bellies have no ears
- Time works wonders
- Little pitchers have long ears
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- No man is wise at all times
- Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles)
- With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin
- To be head over ears in debt
- All asses wag their ears
- He that seeks trouble never misses