make ends meet
• earn just enough money to live on.
• "they were finding it hard to make ends meet"
Similar:
manage,
cope,
get by,
survive,
exist,
subsist,
muddle through/along,
scrape by/along/through,
get along,
make do,
keep the wolf from the door,
keep one's head above water,
scrimp,
scrape a living,
make out,
