scrape by

短语

靠…勉强度日

词形变化

scraped by scrapes by 三单 scrapes by scraping by scraping by 现在分词 scraped by 过去式 scraped by 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To only afford the essentials; to barely sustain oneself.

    不及物

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

词汇关系

词源

From scrape + by.

来源:wiktionary