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scrape along

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scrape along (on something) and scrape along (with something)
to manage just to get along with a minimum amount of something. We can just scrape along on the money I earn from my sewing. Do you think you can scrape along with just $400 per month?
See also: along, scrape


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Sometimes he knocked against a chair, making it scrape along the floor.
There was seldom much over, but I managed to scrape along somehow.
Sometimes a tuft of high grass washed along his sides as a wave washes along the sides of a ship, and sometimes a cluster of wild-pepper vines would scrape along his back, or a bamboo would creak where his shoulder touched it.
 
 
 
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