eke sth out
— phrasal verb with eke uk/iːk/us/iːk/verb
to use something slowly or carefully because you only have a small amount of it:
There wasn't much food left, but we just managed to eke it out.
He managed to eke out a living (= earn just enough to live on) one summer by selling drinks on a beach.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Coping and not coping
- balancing act
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- cut
- head
- hold
- keep the wolf from the door idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- live (from) hand to mouth idiom
- live to fight another day idiom
- manage
- roll
- stride
- subsist
- subsistence
- take sth in your stride idiom
- wolf
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