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Example | Meaning |
Yeah. I finish-- I graduated high-school just barely. Thank God the ah, the teacher's went on strike. Um, 'cause then we didn 't have to write our exams one year, or something happened where I- don-'t-know, I- that 's how I graduated. I-mean, I just barely eked by. But I, I started smo-- smoking pot like when I was sixteen and it kind-- kind-of became a habit. |
To get by with great effort |
Example | Meaning |
So they- they were from- all of them were quite familiar with how to use land that had nothing. Sheep- ah, not the Wilks family but a lot of the settlers and- you can see that couldn't eke a living out of some of the- the, ah, rocky areas and-such. Um, so it was kind of hard times up by Lanark. Now, on the other hand the Corr family were fairly wealthy farmer bunch and they were hard, hard workers. |
To get by with great effort |