養家糊口

养家糊口
yǎngjiāhúkǒu
(idiom) to provide for one's family

CEDICT

to support one's family (often with the meaning of to barely manage to do so with one's meagre income)

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 養家 yǎngjiā
  1. to support a family
  2. to raise a family
=2 糊口 húkǒu
  1. to scrape a meager living
  2. to get by with difficulty
=2 糊口 húkǒu variant of 糊口 húkǒu