I can’t afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present, or be able to tell you not to worry - I’m twenty-eight years old and I’m still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp.
There was nothing between rhetoric and imperative. He had no policies. He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail.
A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth. Now he’s a computer operator with a firm of designers.