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scrape through

verb

  1. intr to manage or survive with difficulty
  2. to succeed in with difficulty or by a narrow margin

    he scraped through by one mark

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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If the rain hadn't relented in Antigua for England to beat Namibia and scrape through the group by the skin of their teeth, this decision could have come a good few weeks ago.

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"I don't feel a connection. I have no friends or relatives there," says one woman as she uses her knife to scrape through the baskets to release the shellfish.

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"I honestly never thought I would be good enough to be deemed a contestant, let alone scrape through certain weeks and get to the final," he said.

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