Make ends meet

If you're lucky and you can make ends meet you earn enough money to pay all of your daily expenses. It's a very nice feeling.

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English Idiom: Make ends meet

Many people suffer a lot of headaches trying to make ends meet.

Some people have been very successful in life, and the only thing they have to worry about is tall poppy syndrome.

Whether they became successful by currying favour by working hard or a combination of both is not the point.

The point is that successful people probably do not have much trouble earning money and making payments on their stuff.

For the rest of us, however, keeping our heads above water is a constant struggle.


If you’re lucky and can make ends meet, you earn enough money to pay your daily expenses.


You might even have enough left over for a beer or a nice restaurant meal at the end of the week.

Quite often, this expression is used in a negative sense.

Mostly, the people who talk about the difficulty of earning enough money to pay all the bills are those who cannot do so.

I sincerely hope that you do not have trouble making ends meet.


This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).

On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 69.

The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.