After paying for our travel costs, we barely (= only just) broke even.
to have no profit or loss at the end of a business activity:
August car sales fell short of the industry's expectations.
to fail to reach an amount or standard that was expected or hoped for, causing disappointment:
Shall we go halves on a bottle of champagne?
to divide the cost of something with someone:
"Do you prefer the white or the red car." B: It's as broad as it's long. I'll only have it for a day."
used for saying that you cannot choose between two things or actions because they are equal
people trying to keep up with the Joneses by buying expensive cars and clothes that they can't afford
to show that one is as good as other people by getting what they have and doing what they do
I haven't seen you since you were knee-high to a grasshopper.
to be very small or young
We had to move our things lock, stock, and barrel to the other side of the country.
including all or every part of something:
Staff at the bank have apparently been lining their pockets with money from investors' accounts.
to earn money using dishonest or illegal methods:
Shall we give her chocolates or flowers?" "I don't know, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other."
said when you think that neither of two choices is better than the other
That is a tidy sum.
a big amount of money
