Antonyms for make ends meet


Grammar : Verb
Spell : end
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnd


Definition of make ends meet

Origin :
  • Old English endian, from the source of end (n.). Related: Ended; ending.
  • As in live : verb make money to support living
  • As in save : verb economize; set money aside for later use
  • As in scrimp : verb economize
  • As in skimp : verb be cheap or frugal about
  • As in stint : verb economize; hold back
  • As in subsist : verb keep going, living
  • As in economize : verb save money
  • As in get by : verb manage, survive
Example sentences :
  • They pay me when they can and, so that I can make ends meet, I am well content.'
  • Extract from : « No Surrender! » by G. A. Henty
  • You know how—sometimes even to make ends meet, it is a pinch.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various
  • With the best will in the world it would be impossible to make ends meet.
  • Extract from : « A Chambermaid's Diary » by Octave Mirbeau
  • After all, something must bend if you are going to make ends meet.
  • Extract from : « Aliens » by William McFee
  • The close of his life was a horrible struggle to make ends meet.
  • Extract from : « Dumas' Paris » by Francis Miltoun
  • And—and—well, it's hard to make ends meet anyhow these times.
  • Extract from : « Dry Fish and Wet » by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
  • He could sympathize with those who knew not how to make ends meet.
  • Extract from : « Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous » by Sarah K. Bolton
  • Though an exemplary man he could not make ends meet in a business out of which his father had made a fortune.
  • Extract from : « Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures » by George W. Bain
  • The women here have a rough time; what with no servants, no kitchen, scanty wood, and poor rations; it is hard to make ends meet.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Endurance » by A.D.L.
  • I am sure when you are so near I shall find some literary labor for you that will make ends meet.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) » by John Gibson Lockhart

Synonyms for make ends meet

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