muddle through

English

Verb

muddle through (third-person singular simple present muddles through, present participle muddling through, simple past and past participle muddled through)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained.

   I've only had a few lessons, but I can muddle through the test.

Synonyms

• make do
• get along
• get by
• scrape along
• scrape by
• scratch a living

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: pärjätä jotenkin, rämpiä läpi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: sich durchwursteln, schlecht und recht durchkommen