Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
AU
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| bulgaria | преживявам, преживея |
| hollanti | zijn hoofd boven water houden, het overleven, het de baas kunnen |
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (idiomatic) To survive or endure, especially in a situation in which one is struggling to avoid being overwhelmed by adverse financial circumstances.
Esimerkit
- Blessed be God that ministreth ever some comfort to sweeten the calamities of life, and to keep the soul from fainting, to keep the head above water, that the deep waters swallow us not up.
- I endeavoured to obtain a mitigation of this severe sentence, by offering myself to engage for the payment of the remaining sum, to preserve my mother's small salary unencumbered; but he interrupted me with the utmost cruelty, by saying . . . it would be pretty well if, for some years, I could keep my own head above water.
- Besides, I have had to borrow ten thousand dollars of him to keep my head above water.
- The capitalist system being one under which a profit must be made by any enterprise that is to keep its head above water, we are forced to call off the fight in this case.
- Strong sales in Europe and Asia are helping Tiffany keep its head above water at a time when US consumers are holding onto their wallets.