tide over
verbDefinitions
To support or sustain (someone), especially financially, for a limited period.
- Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?
- Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?
- Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis.
To endure
To endure; weather.
- I had a certain grim pleasure in reading letters from two or three literary men, asking for work ‘as secretary or companion,’ or failing that, for the loan of a little cash to ‘tide over present difficulties.’
- I will therefore suggest a way to tide over this difficulty.
The neighborhood
- synonymhold over
- synonymtide through
- synonymcarry through
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tide over. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA