Make ends meet
To earn just enough money to cover what you need.
Chạy ăn từng bữa.
Kiếm vừa đủ sống, không dư dả gì.
Make ends meet
Examples
They took second jobs to make ends meet.
Họ làm thêm việc thứ hai cho đủ sống.
It is hard to make ends meet on one salary.
Chỉ với một đồng lương thì khó mà đủ sống.
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Related idioms
- Live from hand to mouthsimilar meaning
- Enough is as good as a feastsimilar meaning
- Money makes the mare gosimilar meaning
- Save for a rainy daysimilar meaning
- Money doesn't grow on treessimilar meaning
- The end justifies the meanseasily confused