muddle through

== English == === Etymology === From muddle (“to think and act in a confused, aimless way”) + through. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmʌdl̩ θɹuː/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmʌd(ə)l θɹu/ Hyphenation: mud‧dle through === Verb === muddle through (third-person singular simple present muddles through, present participle muddling through, simple past and past participle muddled through) (ambitransitive) 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 ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “to muddle through” under “muddle, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2021. “muddle through, phrasal v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.