make\ ends\ meet

make\ ends\ meet
v. phr.
To have enough money to pay one's bills; earn what it costs to live.

Both husband and wife had to work to make ends meet.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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