stretch to sth
UK informal— phrasal verb with stretch uk/stretʃ/us/stretʃ/verb
to manage to give or pay a particular amount, often a larger amount than you might expect:
"How much money do you want to borrow?" "Could you stretch to £50?"
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 body and soul together idiom
- 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
- manage
- roll
- sink or swim idiom
- stride
- subsist
- subsistence
- take sth in your stride idiom
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