make ends meet

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make (both) ends meet

to have just enough money to pay for the things that you need. My wages were so low that I had to take a second job just to make ends meet.

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"He can't make ends meet on his salary as it is, and he has a wife and two kids--" Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context Those who saw them often asked how it was that a woman could keep her husband in good clothes, wear a Leghorn bonnet with flowers, embroidered muslin dresses, silk mantles, prunella boots, handsome fichus, a Chinese parasol, and drive home in a hackney-coach, and yet be virtuous; while Madame Colleville and other "ladies" of her kind could scarcely make ends meet, though they had double Madame Minard's means. Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context More results

References in classic literature

"He can't make ends meet on his salary as it is, and he has a wife and two kids--"

Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context

Those who saw them often asked how it was that a woman could keep her husband in good clothes, wear a Leghorn bonnet with flowers, embroidered muslin dresses, silk mantles, prunella boots, handsome fichus, a Chinese parasol, and drive home in a hackney-coach, and yet be virtuous; while Madame Colleville and other "ladies" of her kind could scarcely make ends meet, though they had double Madame Minard's means.

Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context

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