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rub alongBritish informal 1Cope or manage without undue difficulty: they rub along because their overheads are so low...- Local journalists who had been rubbing along on whatever miserable pay journalists make were suddenly migrating to the East Side where they were not getting employed as journalists, but as content providers.
- All I want is what is best for my Asian community, not for them to keep rubbing along.
- If the county disappears and we become a unitary authority, we do not have a redundant building and, if not, I am sure we can rub along nicely.
Synonyms manage, cope, get along/on, make do, be/fare/do all right, muddle along/through, shift informal make out, get by 1.1Have a satisfactorily friendly relationship: they liked each other and rubbed along quite well...- A wide variety of age groups, families and friends, happily rubbed along side-by-side enjoying everything that we had to offer in this beautiful setting.
- But I like their blogs and the personalities that shine through the writing and we usually rub along quite amicably.
- He wasn't much loved in his own time, apparently, even by people - schoolmates, for example, and neighbours in Vermont - with whom he thought he was rubbing along well.
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