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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Idiom for hardly make a living

Hi.
Is there any idiom for hardly make a living?. They earn either less than their needs or just the amount that satisfy their needs

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They scrape by.

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//but scrape by doesn't state that they may earn enough money
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They (can) barely make ends meet.
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ozzourtiThey (can) barely make ends meet.
make end meets means making just enough money to pay for the needs you have.
What about making less money than your needs?
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soheil1make end meets means making just enough money to pay for the needs you have.What about making less money than your needs?
That's why I said "barely".
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soheil1//but scrape by doesn't state that they may earn enough money
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/scrape-by
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barely keeping their heads above water
living paycheck to paycheck
on their uppers
going into the hole each month
barely keeping the wolf from the door
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soheil1but scrape by doesn't state that they may earn enough money
Yes it does: they earn enough money to survive.
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