| 词汇 | make ends meet |
| 词源 | make ends meet. This phrase seems to be merely a shorten- ing of to make both ends of the year meet, meaning the same— “to live within one’s income.” Smollett first recorded the saying in his picaresque novel The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748). |
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