scratch together
Britishverb
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Reaves even led the Lakers with 23 points as Davis could only scratch together 12.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Forget retirement — the first episode involves the quartet’s quest to scratch together enough cash to pay their $70 electric bill.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2019
We shopped at discount grocery stores and cooked special dinners from scratch together.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019
They decided to pause there and start felling pine trees, to scratch together the money they needed to finish.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
For the fuel wherewith to cook the exiguous supplies of this uncertain food, the family is wholly dependent upon what the children can scratch together.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
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