"live beyond one's means" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-live beyond one's means.ogg [Australia] Forms: lives beyond one's means [present, singular, third-person], living beyond one's means [participle, present], lived beyond one's means [participle, past], lived beyond one's means [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} live beyond one's means (third-person singular simple present lives beyond one's means, present participle living beyond one's means, simple past and past participle lived beyond one's means)
  1. (idiomatic) Have a lifestyle where one's spending regularly exceeds one's income. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: champagne taste on a beer budget, begin with the chucky Translations (Translations): boven zijn stand leven (Dutch), elää yli varojensa (Finnish), vivre au-dessus de ses moyens (French), griveler (French), über seine Verhältnisse leben (German), besar pasak daripada tiang (Indonesian), vivere al di sopra dei propri mezzi (Italian), żyć ponad stan [imperfective] (Polish), жить не по сре́дствам (žitʹ ne po srédstvam) [imperfective] (Russian), vivir por encima de tus posibilidades (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-live_beyond_one's_means-en-verb-As1QTc~I Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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