Break Even
- Break Even
- How common is this idiom?: Still widely used in business and everyday conversations, but its usage has become more nuanced, often used in a more figurative sense.
- Literal Meaning: To have equal amounts of income and expenses, resulting in neither profit nor loss.
- Actual Idiomatic Meaning: To reach a point where the costs and benefits of a situation are equal, resulting in neither gain nor loss.
- The company will break even this quarter, after a year of struggling to stay afloat.
- I've been working two jobs just to break even and pay off my student loans.
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