rub along

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English

Verb

rub along (third-person singular simple present rubs along, present participle rubbing along, simple past and past participle rubbed along)

  1. To go on with difficulty.
    They manage, with strict economy, to rub along.

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rub along”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)