live paycheck to paycheck (English, verb)
expansion: live paycheck to paycheck (third-person singular simple present lives paycheck to paycheck, present participle living paycheck to paycheck, simple past and past participle lived paycheck to paycheck)
Senses:
glosses: To have the entirety of what one earns consumed by living expenses, thus having nothing left over to save; make just enough (money, etc.) to survive; to scratch by.
tags: US
idiomatic
Forms:
form: lives paycheck to paycheck
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: living paycheck to paycheck
tags: participle
present
form: lived paycheck to paycheck
tags: participle
past
form: lived paycheck to paycheck
tags: past
form: live paycheque to paycheque
tags: alternative
form: live from paycheck to paycheck
tags: alternative