Caroline Tran
2020-08-16 11:08
Make ends meet American spoken language informal verb phrase
In this pandemic season, I am struggling to make ends meet.
After she lost her job, her family barely managed to make ends meet.
Although I am poor, I still make ends meet.
To have no money
1.Someone viewed with contempt
2. Very bad
save as much money as possible
Used to say that someone attempts to get money from you.
The verb "make" should be conjugated according to its tense.
Most people believe that this idiom is a translation of a French phrase. Originally, this idiom was "Make both ends of the year meet", which meant to spend only as much money as you earned; "both ends" meaning the beginning and end of the year.
Do you see anything wrong?
To be outperformed or outrun by someone, usually by a very wide margin.
You have to be quicker to finish this task or you will eat other my dust.
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