Scrape by
/skreɪp baɪ/B2
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1. To just manage to live or survive, particularly in difficult circumstances or with insufficient resources or money.
- With two jobs, she barely manages to scrape by each month.
- They had to scrape by on his small salary after he lost his job.
- After the rent increased, we were just scraping by.
2. To succeed in achieving something with great difficulty or minimal success.
- Despite not studying much, he scraped by with a passing grade.
- We scraped by in the final match to win the championship.
- She managed to scrape by in her exams with the lowest passing marks.
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