scrape through

verb

1. intr to manage or survive with difficulty
2. to succeed in with difficulty or by a narrow margin

   he scraped through by one mark

Example Sentences

If the rain hadn't relented in Antigua for England to beat Namibia and scrape through the group by the skin of their teeth, this decision could have come a good few weeks ago.

From BBC

"I don't feel a connection. I have no friends or relatives there," says one woman as she uses her knife to scrape through the baskets to release the shellfish.

From BBC

"I honestly never thought I would be good enough to be deemed a contestant, let alone scrape through certain weeks and get to the final," he said.

From BBC

If you have a blog or a personal site, you can tell OpenAI not to scrape through robots.txt.

From Los Angeles Times

Watch highlights as England scrape through to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup with a dramatic penalty shootout victory over Nigeria despite Lauren James' red card.

From BBC