get by

— Phrasal Verb with get

/get/ verb (present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got, US gotten)

Definition

› to be able to live or deal with a situation with difficulty, usually by having just enough of something you need, such as money: I don't know how he gets by on so little money.

(Definition of get by from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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get away with sth
get back
get back to sb
get back to sth
get behind
get by
get cold feet idiom
get down to sth
get in
get in on the act idiom
get into sb

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