scrape by
scrape along

In the other, the middle class is barely scraping by.

The other kids, their folks were all just scraping by.

Life was going on more or less as usual, scraping by.

Perhaps I may get myself into a scrape by this confidence, but no matter.

"I've got to scrape by until the next check comes."

On top of all this, I was just barely scraping by.

It almost knocked me out of the game but I scraped by.

But the years of hard work and scraping by had taken a toll on her.

All the greater reason why he should get out of the scrape by depending only on himself.

His mother scraped by, but when he was about to enter high school, she moved to Florida to start a new life.

The first is the absolute minimum you will need to scrape by.

Worried I'd be upset because we were just scraping by.

A millionaire may not face the same issues as someone scraping by without insurance.

At the beginning of the novel, he has been dead for three years and the family are barely scraping by.

Our father had been scraping by on two and three blue-collar jobs.

He realizes that his words mean little in a town where most barely scrape by.

Most of them are scraping by, saving their money, and hoping to move along.

She will be able to scrape by on her £1,500 a year.

Most of us are just trying to scrape by day to day.

It has taken his wife's earnings from a fast food restaurant for them to scrape by.

Most people are scraping by on smaller paychecks and less government support.

For a while, she and her father scraped by.

He said he scraped by with the help of family and friends.

He shared an apartment in Connecticut with a friend and was just scraping by.

I've managed to scrape by without it in other parts of central Asia.