scrape by/along
— phrasal verb with scrape uk/skreɪp/us/skreɪp/verb
to manage to live when you do not have enough money and other necessary things:
He lost his job, so the family had to scrape by on one small salary.
to manage with difficulty to get a successful result or to reach an acceptable standard:
I only studied Spanish for a year but I can scrape by in most situations.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Coping and not coping
- balancing act
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- cut
- head
- hold
- keep body and soul together idiom
- keep the wolf from the door idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- live (from) hand to mouth idiom
- manage
- roll
- stride
- subsist
- subsistence
- take sth in your stride idiom
- wolf
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