intransitive. To make one's way as best one can; to stumble along. literal and figurative. Now only dialect.

transferred and figurative.

‘To act or live though with difficulty’ (Johnson); to manage with something inferior or without something desirable; to make shift.

intransitive. To succeed (despite difficulties) in accomplishing a task; to cope or get by (esp. financially); to contrive to get on with something…

intransitive. To manage with difficulty, to ‘scrape’ along. Also with on. colloquial.

To make progress with difficulty to, into, out of (a place, a condition), through (something interposed). Also with adverb, along, forward, on. to…

figurative. intransitive with adverb. To get along, on, through with difficulty.

intransitive. To move slowly and irregularly; to waddle; to wriggle. Also: to work slowly and laboriously; to make progress despite difficulties or…

intransitive with adverb complement (cf. the transferred uses 5b, 5c, 6b above). To get through (a business, piece of work) by persistent effort or…

intransitive. to scrape along: to manage or ‘get along’ with difficulty. to scrape through: to get through a trial, an examination, so as just to…

intransitive. To manage with difficulty to survive or function; to cope.

To survive with difficulty, to make a bare living by uncongenial or degrading means. slang (chiefly U.S.).