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squeak by
Idioms and Phrases
Also, squeak through . Manage barely to pass, win, survive, or the like, as in They are just squeaking by on their income , or He squeaked through the driver's test . This idiom transfers squeak in the sense of “barely emit a sound” to “narrowly manage something.” [First half of 1900s] Also see squeeze through .Example Sentences
They embraced risk and played to win big rather than striving not to offend and hoping to squeak by.
So far she’s squeaked by with money borrowed from her employer.
But after the March 5 election, it took 15 days of tallying mail-in ballots for The Associated Press to determine that the measure had squeaked by.
Auston Matthews scored 2:12 into overtime and the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied for a 2-1 victory over the Ducks on Wednesday night, squeaking by after taking 57 shots on goal.
The Seahawks recovered from a blowout loss against the Ravens by … needing to put together two go-ahead drives in the final five minutes to squeak by Washington in Week 10.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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