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• v  manage one's existence barely

• scrape along
• scrape by
• scratch along
• squeak by
• rub along

News & Articles

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• A shattered car window, a body slumped inside
  The stretch of West Monroe Street was supposed to be two-way but with the snow and the parked cars, the police SUVs could barely squeeze by each other.        
  Feb. 9, 2014 - Chicago Tribune
• Scene of the Crime: Murder in West Garfield Park
  The stretch of West Monroe Street was supposed to be two-way but with the snow and the parked cars, the police SUVs could barely squeeze by each other. Yellow tape stretched across the street in the 4500 block, just west of a speed bump and just east of a vacant lot.        
  Feb. 9, 2014 - Chicago Tribune