eke out
phrasal verbeke something out
- to make a small supply of something such as food or money last longer by using only small amounts of it
- She managed to eke out her student loan till the end of the year.
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- eke out a living, etc. to manage to live with very little money
- For years he eked out a miserable existence in a dreary bedsit in Bristol.