muddle through
Verb
Meaning
muddle through (third-person singular simple present muddles through, present participle muddling through, simple past and past participle muddled through)
(transitive, intransitive) To succeed (often clumsily) despite being ill-equipped or inadequately trained.
Synonyms: get along, get by, make do, (Britain) muddle along, scrape along, scrape by
I’ve only had a few lessons, but I can muddle through the test.
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Examples
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.
Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
But even as Tesla tries to muddle through Elon Musk’s self-proclaimed production hell, he is entering what I have termed, “warranty service hell”.
Dan Rossanova from Microsoft (product manager for the new Azure Event Grid service) joined me on stage; luckily we see eye-to-eye on how to think about categorizing things, so we were able to build a presentation that helped muddle through the confusion.