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Rub along

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To survive or get by with some difficulty.

    "Mrs. Dinsmore has experienced 'love in a cottage,' and probably has no very idyllic recollections; she knows what it is to rub along with one servant, or even none, and keep up appearances and worry about the next month's rent"

  2. 2
    manage one's existence barely wordnet
  3. 3
    To get along, to have an amicable relationship.

    "Though he had at first to rub along in coarse society, he always maintained his inward refinement; he liked the table in the office to be of polished wood, and everything to be on a gentlemanly scale"

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