Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigSuggestions(5)
Idiom
To make ends meet.
To have enough money to pay one's basic.
Exact(45)
I've been able to make ends meet, but that's about it.
He will be able to make ends meet by selling shares he already owns.
Unless it can manage to trim what it pays those nurses, social workers and janitors, the city will not be able to make ends meet next year.
A great number of people in Greece still live below the poverty line, not knowing when and if they'll ever be able to make ends meet again.
But I won't be able to make ends meet and my girlfriend is just about to have our second baby so she can't work.
"People will live and work and collect Social Security while you have people barely able to make ends meet," he said.
Similar(15)
But he and his wife, Barb, a teacher, decided to postpone retirement, in part because their retirement savings lost about half their value when the stock market bubble popped and because they worry about being able to continue to make ends meet.
While the latest blockade from November has been partially lifted, people who are able to work are struggling to make ends meet.
They think highly of her commitment to family, but want to know if this makes her able to understand their daily struggles to make ends meet and their future more secure.
Ms. Lopez, 21, is an illegal immigrant from Ecuador and has struggled to make ends meet, working several jobs to be able to pay for school.
He's been able to purchase his first house, he said, but had to take in four roommates to make ends meet.
More suggestions(3)
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com