Meaning of muddle through | Babel Free

Definitions

To succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained.

ambitransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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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