TODAY'S IDIOM: MAKE ENDS MEET

"MAKE ENDS MEET"

If you make ends meet, you earn just enough to pay for a place to live and your daily expenses.

Example: Does the government really think elderly people can make ends meet on their pensions?

Sobrevivir.

Example sentences:

• My wife and I both have to work full-time just to make ends meet these days / Mi esposa y yo tenemos que trabajar tiempo completo solo para sobrevivir en estos tiempos.

• Fiona earns just enough to make ends meet, so she's looking for a better-paying job / Fiona gana lo sufuciente para sobrevivir, por lo que ella está buscando un empleo mejor pagado.

Additional examples:

• 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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