make ends meet

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make (both) ends meet

Fig. to earn and spend equal amounts of money. (Usually in reference to a meager living with little if any money after basic expenses.) I have to work at two jobs to make ends meet. Through better budgeting, I am learning to make both 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			make an offer make application make arrangements make arrangements for make arrangements to do make at home make available to make away with make bed make believe make believe that make blood boil make blood run cold make book on make certain of make change make chin music make clear to make common cause make common cause with make cracks about make day make demands of make do and mend make eat crow make ends meet make every effort to do make eyes at make faces make feel small make flesh crawl make for somewhere make free with make friends with make fun of make good make good as make good money make good on make good time make gorge rise make great play of make hair stand on end make hard work of Make haste slowly make hay Make hay while the sun shines make head swim make headlines make heads or tails of make headway			make difficult make dim Make Directory make discontented make disease-free make disloyal make dissatisfied make distasteful make distinctions make distinctive make distribution of make do make do make do make do and mend make docile make ducks and drakes of make ducks and drakes of make durable make earnest entreaty make earnest petition for make easier make easy Make Easy Money with Google make eat crow make effective make elaborate make ends meet make entrance make entrance make entrance make equal make essential make eternal make even make everlasting make every effort to do Make Everything Happen make evident make excessive demands make excessive use of make exchanges make excuses make excuses make expenditure make explanation of make explicit make extinct make eyeless make eyes make eyes make eyes make eyes at make eyes at make eyes at make eyes at make eyes at make eyes pop

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