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单词 make (both) ends meet
释义

make (both) ends meet

Earn just enough money to live on: they were finding it hard to make ends meet...
  • Some want to make enough money to make ends meet; others want money for extras or just a way to stay busy.
  • Liz and Nick were always out to work but they barely had enough money to make ends meet.
  • This will lead to loss of trade to the shopkeepers who are all having a hard enough time to make ends meet as it is.

Synonyms

manage, cope, get by, survive, exist, subsist, muddle through/along, scrape by/along/through, get along, make do, barely/scarcely have enough to live on, keep the wolf from the door, keep one's head above water, scrimp, scrape a living
informal make out
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