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squeeze through
Idioms and Phrases
Also, squeeze by . Manage to pass, win, or survive by a narrow margin, as in We squeezed through the second round of playoffs , or There was just enough food stored in the cabin for us to squeeze by until the hurricane ended . This idiom uses squeeze in the sense of “succeed by means of compression.” [c. 1700] Also see squeak by .Example Sentences
If we were to squeeze through small cracks in his mind’s cavern walls or crawl down its miniaturized hallways toward Erickson's nerve center, we might find ourselves in a room with a broken printer.
But the Legislature habitually tries to squeeze through more spending long after the annual budget has been enacted.
But that treble dream ended when they proved to be simply no match for a Gloucestershire side who came from nowhere to squeeze through in the Southern Group, then followed it up with three straight Edgbaston wins.
But who takes care of what gets complicated quickly, and that helps explain why so many outbreaks seem to squeeze through the cracks.
Imagine a slime-like robot that can seamlessly change its shape to squeeze through narrow spaces, which could be deployed inside the human body to remove an unwanted item.
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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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