muddle through
verb/ˈmʌdl̩ θɹuː/UK/ˈmʌd(ə)l θɹu/US
Etymology
From muddle (“to think and act in a confused, aimless way”) + through.
Definitions
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.
- Someday soon we all will be together / If the fates allow. / Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow. / So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
- If Labour's senior team thinks that it can just muddle through to the next election without a coherent plan about how to tackle the problems of the industry, it is making a big mistake.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA