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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. 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. make ends meet to have enough money to pay for your basic expenses To make ends meet, she runs a day-care center out of her home. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"He can't make ends meet on his salary as it is, and he has a wife and two kids--" 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. |
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