zhāo​bù​lǜ​xī

hand-to-mouth

朝不虑夕 (朝不慮夕) zhāo​bù​lǜ​xī
hand-to-mouth idiom
living in extreme poverty where one cannot be sure of basic survival or the next meal
precarious idiom
in a state of imminent crisis or danger where survival or safety is uncertain from one moment to the next

Frequency

Written text
0.009 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)