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Scrape by

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To only afford the essentials; to barely sustain oneself. intransitive

    "Everyone in her family had to get a second job just so they could scrape by."

  2. 2
    manage one's existence barely wordnet

Etymology

From scrape + by.

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