keep one’s head above water

keep one’s head above water尽力避免(在财务上)不亏欠;不举债：The shopkeeper took great pains in managing his shop so as to keep his head above water. 那店主人辛辛苦苦经营他的商店以避免亏欠。

• promise (someone) the earth（或moon）
• the incumbent president / priest / government etc
• gas stoves
• to perfection
• bit rate
• hyphenisation
• St.Valentine's day
• clearance limit
• patos
• erythroblastosis
• ascared
• licenseless
• signman
• telegraph forms
• doubtlessness
• lemon
• coevolving
• Insps
• ovaries
• spongocoels
• make no odds
• lag line
• be bright in the eye
• paradest
• Hong kong reentry permit
• coward broker
• puzzlingly
• landing forces
• acceleration of gravity
• sissy bars
• glockenspiels
• promise away
• a lottery
• let your heart rule your head
• semisacred
• galactic disk
• lie by
• drubs
• tempest in a tea-pot
• din sth into
• tineid
• temperate-westerlies index
• Albion
• Pugwash Conferences
• Bixaceae
• shapable
• teeter on the brink（或edge）
• ruffle up
• overbalance
• dip toast
• O'Connor, Flannery
• anthropography
• breath to someone's nostrils
• movest
• recondition
• washer woman's skin
• asynchronous logic
• grege
• infirmatory
• forbearance
• surinam cherries
• endogenic
• insectariums
• collimators
• blossomy
• crash courses
• Conrad, Charles Jr.
• Claude,Albert
• dimedone
• ctenidial
• acidity coefficient
• macrostructures
• scungy
• dictation speed
• tabour
• dinoflagellates
• confidence game
• trihydrates
• cudas
• microserfs
• voice mail
• lead-out groove
• trip / roll off the tongue
• bletted
• pay dear for one's whistle
• assimilators
• from Dam to Beersheba
• succeed
• free-faller
• SMV
• laxities
• take the nonsense out of someone
• ads.
• know beans about
• schools programme
• husking bee
• dawn
• immediateness
• hexavalent
• Bovary, Emma