"salir a cuenta" meaning in Spanish

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "salgo a cuenta",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "salí a cuenta",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "salido a cuenta",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "salir a cuenta (first-person singular present salgo a cuenta, first-person singular preterite salí a cuenta, past participle salido a cuenta)",
      "name": "es-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Is it worth repairing?",
          "text": "¿Sale a cuentas repararlo?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I don't believe it pays off to change a huge amount of data for years of personal experience.",
          "ref": "1989, Susana Camps, El sueño robado",
          "text": "No creo que salga a cuenta cambiar un montón de datos por años de experiencia personal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "And it worked, almost. Because that got better, but everything else got worse. So in the end it wasn't worthwhile.",
          "ref": "2010, Kiko Amat, Rompepistas",
          "text": "Y funcionó, casi. Porque aquello mejoró, pero todo lo demás empeoró. Así que al final no me salió a cuenta.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Without this type of publicity, there are parts of the year where it doesn't pay off to publish a newspaper or magazine, and there are hours in which it is better not to broadcast any radio or television programme.",
          "ref": "2016, Carlos J. Campo, Periodismo de marcas",
          "text": "Sin este tipo de publicidad, hay épocas del año en las que no sale a cuenta publicar un periódico o una revista, y hay horarios en los que es mejor no emitir ningún programa de radio o televisión.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to pay off; to be worthwhile"
      ],
      "id": "en-salir_a_cuenta-es-verb-4sxaXerR",
      "links": [
        [
          "pay off",
          "pay off"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to pay off; to be worthwhile"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "salir a cuenta"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "salgo a cuenta",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "salí a cuenta",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "salido a cuenta",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "salir a cuenta (first-person singular present salgo a cuenta, first-person singular preterite salí a cuenta, past participle salido a cuenta)",
      "name": "es-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Spanish idioms",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish multiword terms",
        "Spanish terms with quotations",
        "Spanish terms with usage examples",
        "Spanish verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Is it worth repairing?",
          "text": "¿Sale a cuentas repararlo?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I don't believe it pays off to change a huge amount of data for years of personal experience.",
          "ref": "1989, Susana Camps, El sueño robado",
          "text": "No creo que salga a cuenta cambiar un montón de datos por años de experiencia personal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "And it worked, almost. Because that got better, but everything else got worse. So in the end it wasn't worthwhile.",
          "ref": "2010, Kiko Amat, Rompepistas",
          "text": "Y funcionó, casi. Porque aquello mejoró, pero todo lo demás empeoró. Así que al final no me salió a cuenta.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Without this type of publicity, there are parts of the year where it doesn't pay off to publish a newspaper or magazine, and there are hours in which it is better not to broadcast any radio or television programme.",
          "ref": "2016, Carlos J. Campo, Periodismo de marcas",
          "text": "Sin este tipo de publicidad, hay épocas del año en las que no sale a cuenta publicar un periódico o una revista, y hay horarios en los que es mejor no emitir ningún programa de radio o televisión.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to pay off; to be worthwhile"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pay off",
          "pay off"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to pay off; to be worthwhile"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "salir a cuenta"
}