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Make ends meet.
If somebody finds it hard to make ends meet, they have problems living on the money they earn.
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"We're not making ends meet," the priest said.
It's a matter of the wages that they are earning just not making ends meet.
She says that many are working as hard as they can, but are just not making ends meet.
Her rent is $800 a month and though Ms. Perez has two jobs, she is still not making ends meet.
"When you're 30 years old and you've got all this education and you're still not making ends meet, you don't have much choice.
For those who have suffered an economic reversal -- a shrinking investment portfolio or, more drastically, a job loss -- Ms. Klinkenberg advised, "If you're not making ends meet, get a card, tuck in $5 and a little note saying, 'I wish this could be more.
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He consoled women complaining they could not make ends meet on their husbands' fishing income.
But after she had the first of her three children, she could not make ends meet.
All of them are lower caste, have no education, and without this job might not make ends meet.
The data show that 1934-36 was the only other period examined in which New York families could not make ends meet.
The lack of a living wage means you can still have a job and not make ends meet.
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