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Hand to Mouth to India

• dawson 16y ago
  I'm going to say it, because I know I am not the only one who must have misread/misunderstood the title.
  • talonx 16y ago
    I misread it too - as Hand to Mouth in India.
    • ComputerGuru 16y ago
      I've been staring at the title all day and debating whether it would be worth my time or not (I'm at work) and tried to make sense of it. I finally decided it was about an alternative mouth-to-mouth technique in India and clicked here... just to see this!
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• apu 16y ago
  Is "Hand-to-Mouth" a well-known idiom in America and Europe? In India, it means an existence in which you are constantly worried about getting enough food to survive for another day, and all the money you get from working ("hand") goes directly to feeding you ("mouth"), as opposed to building up some level of savings.
  • ggruschow 16y ago
    It's well known to mean the same thing in America.
  • albemuth 16y ago
    Funny, in Costa Rica (and possibly other latin american contries) we have a similar saying: "Coyol quebrado, coyol comido", a "Coyol" is a palm and it literally means "fallen coyol, eaten coyol"