make ends meet

For those who rely on disability benefits to make ends meet, the proposed rules aren’t just abstract numbers, but rather they could mean the difference between financial security and hardship.

For young women like Agnes, the risks of engaging with these men were often weighed against the struggle to make ends meet.

Attempting to regroup, Lindsey and Stevie took a series of odd jobs to make ends meet, with Nicks serving as a hostess at Clementine’s.

Still, he said his annual pay of $68,000 isn’t sufficient to live in costly Los Angeles, and he’s taken on a second job to make ends meet.

She has spoken of how, with the help of a bank loan, she previously set up a clothes shop called Urban Flavour but the business failed and she had to turn to waitressing to make ends meet.