The proper use of "Makes a living"

Question

With persons we say for example: he makes a good living in Qatar, but can we use this idiom to describe an amount of money? For example, if someone wins in poker one million dollars and he wants to describe it can he comment on it as "this makes a living"?

With people* =) - NikkiLR, Apr 20, 2012

Answer 1

Not quite exactly that ("this makes a living"?) but you could comment (on the poker playing in general) and say any of the following.

He makes a good living at it He is making a good living at it. He's making a good living He's making a living. or if you were trying to say it more vaguely, w/o naming the subject (He), you could say It's a living.

hth roger