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Also, squeak through . Manage barely to pass, win, survive, or the like, as in They are just squeaking by on their income , or He squeaked through the driver's test . This idiom transfers squeak in the sense of “barely emit a sound” to “narrowly manage something.” [First half of 1900s] Also see squeeze through .Advertisement
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