With Barely Enough to Live on

With barely enough to live on crossword clue. A Daily Mail UK newspaper quick crossword puzzle question today, 3 Aug 2017. 11 letters (4,2,5)

Answer: HAND TO MOUTH

Meaning:

– A hand-to-mouth existence is a way of life in which you have hardly enough food or money to live on.
Unloved and uncared-for, they live a meaningless hand to mouth existence.

– characterized by the necessity of spending or consuming all that is obtained; at or below the level of mere subsistence

– with barely enough money or food to satisfy immediate needs