Question

Hand-to-Mouth Existence to spend your salary as fast as it's earned without saving any for the future

Accepted Answer

He lives a hand-to-mouth existence doing odd jobs around town. Writers were using this saying in the 16th century. Imagine a starving person who is given food. If he could, he'd save some for later, but because he's so hungry, he gobbles it all down. Every morsel goes directly from his hands into his mouth. Today we say that a person lives a "hand-to-mouth" existence (or "from hand to mouth") when he or she lives from day to day, spending every dollar earned without being able to put aside any savings for the future.

Idiom	Hand-to-Mouth Existence
Example	He lives a hand-to-mouth existence doing odd jobs around town.
Meaning	to spend your salary as fast as it's earned without saving any for the future
Origin	Writers were using this saying in the 16th century. Imagine a starving person who is given food. If he could, he'd save some for later, but because he's so hungry, he gobbles it all down. Every morsel goes directly from his hands into his mouth. Today we say that a person lives a "hand-to-mouth" existence (or "from hand to mouth") when he or she lives from day to day, spending every dollar earned without being able to put aside any savings for the future.

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