WordNet
v. manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary" [syn: scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along]
Usage examples of "scrape along".
Whirling, she strikes out frantically with a fist, but when her hand parts the mist, she stumbles forward into the salty brine of a shallow estuary, water splashing her lips and stinging her eyes as reeds scrape along her thighs.
Charlie looked for signs of injury and found a bad scrape along one flank, but when he pulled tentatively on the reins, Silver moved without limping.
She glided a moment, recovered her wits and moved quickly to turn the bow from a potential scrape along another boat's anchor cable.
He was motionless, scalded by the cold, unable even to move his arms, until he felt his body scrape along the bottom.
They must scrape along the sides of any vehicle on the lane—.
They were bruised and there was a scrape along one instep which oozed drops of blood.
It was like hearing a fingernail scrape along a blackboard, except that there wasn't any sound.
Honing stones were dragged in one last scrape along already sharp swords.
Rincewind turned slowly, feeling the point of the sword scrape along his ribs.
He shoved her until her left side began to scrape along the rift wall.
Instead he thought of the smux, picturing him tightly and allowing that additional force to scrape along the path of his own thought.