Borrowing money from friends and relatives helped him to scrape by.
When you don’t feel like working, it’s easy to tackle everything half-heartedly, doing the bare minimum to scrape by.
The true sign of success is not whether we're the source of perpetual aid that helps people scrape by, it's whether we are partners in building the capacity for transformational change.
He works 50 hours a week and still only earns enough to scrape by.
But most have to scrape by on "zilch" or, at most, on a fraction of what is taken for granted in the for-profit world.
I can just scrape by on what my parents give me.
But the true sign of success is not whether we are a source of perpetual aid that helps people scrape by - it's whether we are partners in building the capacity of transformational change.
It is unfathomable to me as to how the girl can scrape by on such a minuscule amount of money.
Clouds scrape by the snow-covered Iliamna Volcano, which last erupted before Europeans settled in the area.
That's why I've pledged substantial increases in our foreign assistance -not simply to help people scrape by, but to unleash transformational change.
You might just scrape by with a C.
So he would scrape by as well.
