Definition of Scrape along

1. Verb. Manage one's existence barely. "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"


Literary usage of Scrape along

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Accident and injury ; their relations to diseases of the nervous system by Pearce Bailey (1898)
"The toe and inner side of the foot scrape along the floor, and the heel touches the floor only when the patient is standing still. There is a contracture of ..."

2. Special Report by the Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners to the by Board of Railroad Commissioners, Massachusetts (1887)
"They would be inclined, and they might easily scrape along the top; this is not on the very top, it is on the top inside corner. Q. The top of the chord was ..."

3. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
"... and sometimes a cluster of wild-pepper vines would scrape along his back, or a bamboo would creak where his shoulder touched it; but between those times ..."

4. The Fortnightly Review (1882)
"Still we scrape along; and at last at seven o'clock we got to our camping-place ; put tonts up in tho dark ; had some salt tinned beef and muddy water, ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"One corner of the raft struck the shore with a heavy smash, and the scrape along the bank burst about thirty of the skins. Loud was the hissing that escaped ..."

6. Essentials of Geography by Albert Perry Brigham, Charles T. McFarlane (1920)
"The delta of a small stream dirt, and then scrape and scrape along that mark ? You would dig a little ditch. As the ditch deepened it would also widen, ..."

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