scrape sth/sb together/up
informal— phrasal verb with scrape uk/skreɪp/us/skreɪp/verb
to manage with great difficulty to collect enough of something, especially money, or to find the things or people that you need:
I finally scraped together enough money for a flight home.
Do you think we can scrape up a team for Saturday?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Collecting and amassing
- a pack rat idiom
- accumulate
- amass
- assemble
- bank
- bunch
- collect
- collector's item
- compilation
- concentration
- garner
- gather
- glean
- harvest
- load up on sth
- numismatics
- philatelist
- philately
- scrape
- store
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