get by

English

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Verb

get by (third-person singular simple present gets by, present participle getting by, simple past got by, past participle (UK) got by or (US) gotten by)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level.

   Synonyms: get along, make do, make ends meet

   Do you think they can get by on only one salary?

   • 2013, Tim Myers, Melissa Sheppard, “Bad Things”, in Dear You‎^[1], performed by Meiko:

     Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it / Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it

Translations

subsist

• Catalan: campar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 湊合／凑合 (zh) (còuhe)

• Czech: vyjít (cs) pf, vystačit pf, vyžít pf
• Dutch: rondkomen (nl)
• Finnish: selviytyä (fi), tulla toimeen (fi), pysyä leivän syrjässä kiinni
• French: tenir le coup (fr), s’en sortir (fr), se débrouiller (fr)
• German: auskommen (de), durchkommen (de), zurechtkommen (de), klarkommen (de)
• Haitian Creole: pyange
• Hungarian: megél (hu)
• Italian: sbarcare il lunario, tirare avanti
• Japanese: 遣り繰りする (ja) (yarikuri suru), 遣り繰り算段する (yarikuri-sandan suru)
• Polish: radzić sobie (pl)
• Portuguese: sobreviver (pt)
• Russian: справля́ться (ru) impf (spravljátʹsja), спра́виться (ru) pf (správitʹsja)
• Spanish: subsistir (es), arreglárselas, ir tirando
• Swedish: klara sig (sv)
• Turkish: geçinmek (tr), yaşamak (tr)