Companies typically take six months to pay bills, meaning that smaller firms live from hand to mouth.
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We live from hand to mouth,
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They lived from hand to mouth in a place where economic conditions were severe even by Soviet standards.
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In the early days, that meant living from hand to mouth, and I respect their willingness to do that.
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"We live from hand to mouth, " said Ndlozi, who works part-time at a bank and is married to an insurance clerk.
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"We tend to live from hand to mouth, from year to year, and, as they say, that's no way to run a railroad,"
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More ominously for the thousands of small, local nonprofits that live from hand to mouth, 48 percent of respondents said they would " stop,"
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Although he had many commissions and was regarded as Edinburgh's best portrait painter, he mostly lived from hand to mouth or from commission to commission.
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We have all taken it too lightly, allowing those who are " not like us " to live from hand to mouth on a day-to-day basis.
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After all, we always lived from hand to mouth, never looking ahead, spending more when there was something to spend, fitting in somehow when there wasn't.
