Translations for „hand-to-mouth“ in the English » Arabic Dictionary

hand-to-mouth

hand-to-mouth

كَفَافِيّ

hand-to-mouth

لا يَكَادُ يَفِي بِحاجاتِ العَيْشِ الضّرُورِيّة

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English

The ex-prisoners, unable to make a living off the land found themselves forced to revert to crime or to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence until they died.

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It was a hand-to-mouth situation for quite a while for the first few years.

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Some refrain from serving chicken, as their scratching and pecking for food is unlucky, being an idiom for a hand-to-mouth existence.

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Suddenly all those gains you made are gone, and you're right back to hand-to-mouth survival.

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The current reality for female cyclists, however, is a hand-to-mouth existence compared to their male counterparts as teams, and races, struggle to make ends meet.

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Before that, it was hand-to-mouth, it was episodic; an appearance here, a play over there.

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They're going from hand-to-mouth to scratching out a living, to being able to provide nutritious food for their children.

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Hopefully, our role will not always be a hand-to-mouth exercise.

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It was a hand-to-mouth issue every single week.

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Through the depression he lived hand-to-mouth as a traveling salesman.

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