"make both ends meet" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> both ends meet"
      },
      "expansion": "make both ends meet (third-person singular simple present makes both ends meet, present participle making both ends meet, simple past and past participle made both ends meet)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
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          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England:",
          "text": "(entry on Archbishop Edmund Grindall) Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring only to make both ends meet; and as for that little that lapped over he gave it to pious uses.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "Do you know what it is to be poor? Not poor with the arrogant poverty complained of by certain people who have five or six thousand a year to live upon, and who yet swear they can hardly manage to make both ends meet, but really poor, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Synonym of make ends meet"
      ],
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          "make ends meet",
          "make ends meet#English"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now uncommon) Synonym of make ends meet"
      ],
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        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "make ends meet"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make both ends meet"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made both ends meet",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> both ends meet"
      },
      "expansion": "make both ends meet (third-person singular simple present makes both ends meet, present participle making both ends meet, simple past and past participle made both ends meet)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1661, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England:",
          "text": "(entry on Archbishop Edmund Grindall) Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring only to make both ends meet; and as for that little that lapped over he gave it to pious uses.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 5:",
          "text": "Do you know what it is to be poor? Not poor with the arrogant poverty complained of by certain people who have five or six thousand a year to live upon, and who yet swear they can hardly manage to make both ends meet, but really poor, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of make ends meet"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make ends meet",
          "make ends meet#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now uncommon) Synonym of make ends meet"
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "make both ends meet"
}