- to assess one's income and spend accordingly (idiom); to live within one's means
- You can only spend what you earn.
Characters
- 量 (量): to measure
- 入 (入): to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入聲|入声[ru4 sheng1]
- 为 (為): as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)
- 出 (出): to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
Resources
- Wiktionary: 量入为出
- MDBG: 量入为出
- Examples with 量入为出 on Tatoeba
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