Kıt kanaat geçinmek için çok çalıştık.
- We worked hard to make ends meet.
Tom ve karısı kıt kanaat geçinmek için her ikisi çalışmak zorunda.
- Tom and his wife both have to work to make ends meet.
Although most of the poor and displaced in Khartoum struggle to make ends meet, a very small number not only find work, but form small co-operatives.