Ends meet
make ends meet (verb) - just barely earning enough money to buy the things you need to buy to survive
work to make ends meet
just making ends meet
struggle to make ends meet
struggled to make ends meet this winter
having trouble making ends meet
difficulty in making ends meet
finding it difficult to make ends meet
uphill struggle to make ends meet
problems in making ends meet
making ends meet financially
making ends meet to feed many children
trying to make ends meet
a hard-working lad just trying to make ends meet
died early worn out by making ends meet
juggle finances to make ends meet
not going hungry but struggling to make ends meet
make ends meet during difficult times
tension and stress from trying to make ends meet
resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet
take a part time job to make ends meet
low-income groups struggling to make ends meet
difficulties over making ends meet
workers struggling to make ends meet on basic wages
waiting for drama roles she had to make ends meet in other ways
work in the black economy in order to make ends meet
discipline oneself to make ends meet
a company struggling to make ends meet.
the company had no easy task making ends meet
the increasing financial burden of trying to make ends meet
sell out and move to make ends meet
almost impossible to make ends meet
life was a ceaseless round of hard work and struggling to make ends meet
struggle desperately every day to make ends meet
Example sentences:
* "It is sad if mothers who would rather be with their children have to go out to work to make ends meet."
* "His mother died early, worn out by making ends meet and by her husband's gambling."
* "There are people going hungry, but the majority are cases of people struggling to make ends meet."
* "Tommy was a hard-working lad just trying to make ends meet."
* "He disciplined himself to make ends meet during those difficult times."
* "Her life was a ceaseless round of hard work, of struggling to make ends meet."
* "Things have been getting steadily worse, all our investments are down and long before this last attack of Daddy's, it was almost impossible to make ends meet."
* "These days most women have to work to make ends meet and that means time away from their much-loved children and men."
* "They had to juggling finances and try to make ends meet."
* "Many were forced to take part-time jobs or handouts from parents to make ends meet."
* "My widowed mother draws a state pension and is having trouble making ends meet."
* "The level of the basic retirement pension is such that those who rely on it must either live a frugal existence, take part time jobs for as long as possible to make ends meet or claim income support."
* "This example shows how an eventual loan of cash from the weekly credit caller, at a moment of financial hardship, can change a poor family's difficulties over making ends meet into sheer impossibility."
* "You do get a lot of tension trying to make ends meet."
* "On the other hand, government income support provides an income which is very low and this means many families struggle to make ends meet."
* "Now what about your own family, how did you manage, how did you make ends meet with the er four children ?"
* "Many families these days are finding it very hard to make ends meet."
* "People who have extreme difficulty in making ends meet may see credit as their only way out."
* "It was no wonder that the company had no easy task making ends meet."
* "There has been a growing pressure for small-scale hill farmers to diversify their income with non-agricultural work, or else to sell out and move due to the increasing financial burden of trying to make ends meet."
* "Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet, and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries."s
* "Farmers normally convert their farm bit by bit to the new growing technology, in order to make ends meet until the conversion is complete."
* "He talks a lot of tommy rot about not making ends meet, but what I say is you've got to cut your coat according to your cloth."
* "It was a dismal prospect, what with the strikes and inflation, the endless chores, the daily boredom and the uphill struggle to make ends meet, the whole effort was of doubtful benefit and hardly worth the candle."
* "The priest said that he ought to be defending the farmers who are finding it difficult to make ends meet."
* "If I hadn't been picked for this new job, I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter."
* "Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me what little he made every week so that I could make ends meet."
* "The ideal balance sheet with both sides showing the same figure at the end produced the expression 'making ends meet,' in which 'meet' is used in its oldest sense of 'right and fitting'."
* "Many married women whose husbands find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet. This is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught."
* "A good 25% of all the farms in the region were reported as having low standards of living with an element of struggle in making ends meet financially."
* "Those borrowers found it difficult to make ends meet when after being laid off they couldn't afford their homeloan payments."
* "They have to struggle desperately every day to make ends meet."
* "The school which is running a lottery to make ends meet."
* "While waiting for drama roles I did actually have to make ends meet in other ways such as selling advertising space."
* "But those workers struggling to make ends meet on basic wages are likely to see things very differently."
