squeeze by

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar que alguém consegue passar por um espaço estreito com dificuldade, ou que consegue sobreviver, manter-se ou ter sucesso com muito esforço e pouco recurso.

A phrasal verb used to indicate barely managing to pass through a narrow space or to survive or succeed with difficulty.

incontável · intransitivo · phrasal, inseparável

1. Manage with difficultyinformal

   To barely manage to survive or get through a situation, especially financially.

   Sobreviver com dificuldade

   • We had to squeeze by on a very tight budget last month.
   • He squeezed by with just enough money to pay the rent.
   • The company squeezed by during the economic downturn.

   Sinônimoscopeget byscrape bysurvive

2. Pass through a narrow spaceinformal

   To move through a very tight or narrow space with difficulty.

   Passar apertado

   • She squeezed by the crowded table to reach her seat.
   • The car squeezed by the parked truck on the narrow street.
   • He squeezed by the people standing in the doorway.

Verbo basesqueeze