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Verb: rub along
  1. Manage one's existence barely
    "I guess I can rub along on this lousy salary";
    - scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by

Derived forms: rubs along, rubbed along, rubbing along

Type of: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage