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muddle through

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muddle through (something)

to manage to get through something awkwardly. We hadn't practiced the song enough, so we just muddled through it. We didn't know what we were meant to do, so we muddled through.

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muddle through (something)

to continue despite confusion and difficulties My grandparents muddled through droughts and crop failures and family crises.

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muddle through

Blunder through something, manage but awkwardly, as in The choir never knows how to line up, but we muddle through somehow. [Early 1900s]

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muddle through

v.

To do some task poorly or without strong motivation: I forgot the cookbook, so we just muddled through the recipe without it.

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