Tightening your belt means that life is hard, you can't spend money lavishly, and you need to tighten your belt.

Is to rely on their own strength, thrift, in times of poverty and danger to tide over the difficulties.

Generally speaking, we don't have much money at hand, so we should solve the problem of food and clothing carefully and not spend a penny more. Eat less to get by.

I often see the lives of many brothers and sisters in a TV series. Parents should spend a penny and a half, and a candy should be given to their children for three or four and a half. They can't eat meat once a month. This is the life of tightening your belt. When they get through the adolescence when their children grow up, and when they finish their studies and start working, the days of tightening their belts will be over.

Extended data:

The material needs of human beings, including the lack of necessities and services in daily life, have been changed or improved. Whether the economy is rich and whether the funds and resources (natural resources) are sufficient.

The word "enough" has different definitions in culture, politics and economy all over the world. The definition of "poverty" in EU countries includes whether resources are allocated equally. ?

Social interpersonal relationships, whether people facing poverty are marginalized, whether they depend on others, and whether they can live a generally considered "normal" lifestyle. The most commonly used formula for calculating the monthly per capita real income of families is:

Monthly per capita real income of family = [total household income-inevitable expenditure]/number of family dependents. After calculation, the results will be divided into three groups.

The greater the monthly family income is higher than the living expenses, the richer the family environment; Family monthly income and living expenses are balanced, and the family environment will remain unchanged; The lower a family's monthly income is than the living expenses, the worse the family environment.

References:

Poverty, poverty-Baidu Encyclopedia