- scrape together
- gather money etc. a little at a time
We managed to scrape together enough money to go to Disneyland even though business is very bad and we don't have much money.
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scrape together
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scrape together — ˌscrape to ˈgether ˌscrape ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they scrape together he/she/it scrapes together present participle … Useful english dictionary
scrape together — (something) to gather something that is not easily available, esp. money. He managed to scrape together $20 for the train and came back home. Many immigrants have difficulty scraping enough money together for the application. Usage notes: also in … New idioms dictionary
scrape together — index glean Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
scrape together — phrasal verb scrape together or scrape up [transitive] Word forms scrape together : present tense I/you/we/they scrape together he/she/it scrapes together present participle scraping together past tense scraped together past participle scraped… … English dictionary
scrape together — PHRASAL VERB If you scrape together an amount of money or a number of things, you succeed in obtaining it with difficulty. [V n P] They only just managed to scrape the money together... [V P n (not pron)] It s possible the Congress Party will… … English dictionary
scrape together — {v. phr.} To quickly assemble, usually from scanty ingredients. * /We were so hungry we had to scrape together some lunch from all kinds of frozen leftovers./ … Dictionary of American idioms
scrape together — {v. phr.} To quickly assemble, usually from scanty ingredients. * /We were so hungry we had to scrape together some lunch from all kinds of frozen leftovers./ … Dictionary of American idioms
scrape together — phr verb Scrape together is used with these nouns as the object: ↑living … Collocations dictionary
scrape\ together — v. phr. To quickly assemble, usually from scanty ingredients. We were so hungry we had to scrape together some lunch from all kinds of frozen leftovers … Словарь американских идиом
scrape together something — scrape together (something) to gather something that is not easily available, esp. money. He managed to scrape together $20 for the train and came back home. Many immigrants have difficulty scraping enough money together for the application.… … New idioms dictionary
