Error for "with one hand in front and another back", which would be another version of "with one hand back and another in front" ("without economic resources").
Elsa Herrera Ortiz
(To be) with one hand in front or another behind, means to have been left in absolute poverty, either by an unexpected misfortune or by a robbery.
Rodrigo Caiza
This expression is often used in popular jargon to indicate that a person was left with nothing he previously possessed, everything was taken away. It would be as if to indicate that he remained naked and barely covering his private parts.
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