Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?
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Tide over
Synonyms for "tide over" (65 found)
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9 entriesclothing kitemergency grantemergency loanfood bundlefuel rationgrantsshort term loantemporary granttemporary stipend
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12 entriesfunds to tide overloan to tide overmoney to tide overtide over a crisistide over a rough patchtide over until paydaytide-over aidtide-over fundstide-over granttide-over kittide-over loantide-over relief
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6 total sentences available.
Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?
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Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis.
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I had a certain grim pleasure in reading letters from two or three literary men, asking for work ‘as secretary or companion,’ or failing that, for the loan of a little cash to ‘tide over present difficulties.’
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