get by (third-person singular simple present gets by, present participle getting by, simple past got by, past participle (UK) got by or (US) gotten by)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level.
- Synonyms: get along, make do, make ends meet
Do you think they can get by on only one salary?
2013, Tim Myers, Melissa Sheppard, “Bad Things”, in Dear You[1], performed by Meiko:Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it / Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it
subsist
- Catalan: campar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 湊合/凑合 (zh) (còuhe)
- Czech: vyjít (cs) pf, vystačit pf, vyžít pf
- Dutch: rondkomen (nl)
- Finnish: selviytyä (fi), tulla toimeen (fi), pysyä leivän syrjässä kiinni
- French: tenir le coup (fr), s’en sortir (fr), se débrouiller (fr)
- German: auskommen (de), durchkommen (de), zurechtkommen (de), klarkommen (de)
- Haitian Creole: pyange
- Hungarian: megél (hu)
- Italian: sbarcare il lunario, tirare avanti
- Japanese: 遣り繰りする (ja) (yarikuri suru), 遣り繰り算段する (yarikuri-sandan suru)
- Polish: radzić sobie (pl)
- Portuguese: sobreviver (pt)
- Russian: справля́ться (ru) impf (spravljátʹsja), спра́виться (ru) pf (správitʹsja)
- Spanish: subsistir (es), arreglárselas, ir tirando, defenderse (es)
- Swedish: klara sig (sv)
- Turkish: geçinmek (tr), yaşamak (tr)
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