rub along

Definitions

1. 1

   To survive or get by with some difficulty.

   • Mrs. Dinsmore has experienced 'love in a cottage,' and probably has no very idyllic recollections; she knows what it is to rub along with one servant, or even none, and keep up appearances and worry about the next month's rent
2. 2

   To get along, to have an amicable relationship.

   • Though he had at first to rub along in coarse society, he always maintained his inward refinement; he liked the table in the office to be of polished wood, and everything to be on a gentlemanly scale

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