content yourself with sth
— phrasal verb with content uk/kənˈtent/us/kənˈtent/verb [ T ]
to do something or have something although it is not exactly what you want:
I wanted to take two weeks' holiday, but had to content myself with one because the office was so busy.
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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