make ends meet

釋義

1. 牛津電影裡 100%

   使收支相抵；勉強維持生計

   to earn just enough money to be able to buy the things you need

   With both parents working to make ends meet...

   I don't know how we're gonna make it on that paycheck he's talking about, and he got you serving drinks at his party just to make ends meet.

電影裡這樣說 · 3 部

• Hear that? He's trying to make ends meet...American History X1998
• I don't know how we're gonna make it on that paycheck he's talking about, and he got you serving drinks at his party just to make ends meet.Something the Lord Made2004
• With both parents working to make ends meet...Take the Money and Run1969
• Just trying to make ends meet,Shutter Island2010
• Mom was pulling in tricks to make ends meet.Not Another Teen Movie2001
• We all live and train upstairs and run a club downstairs to make ends meet.Step Up 3D2010
• It's the number of times we zero out our bank account each year to make ends meet.Cheaper by the Dozen2003
• I just didn't think I would end up a single mom, struggling to make ends meet.A Simple Favor2018

在完整場景裡學

• 美國X檔案1998
  • 逼學生寫哥哥的論文：here's the drill（規矩是這樣的）
  • 簡報會上放仇恨錄影：pin something on someone（栽贓）
  • 球場上打賭搶地盤：make ends meet（勉強維持生計）

同一詞條的短語

• at the end of the day
• a bad end
• be at the end of
• be at the end of your tether
• be the end
• an end in itself
• the end justifies the means
• the end of the line
• end of story
• end to end
• get your end away
• go to the ends of the earth

習語頻道里接下來

• nine to five
• turn over a new leaf
• how about
• feel sick to your stomach
• run in the family
• get straight
• in place
• in vain
• in public
• and things
• it will cost you
• any day