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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.

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Horniness packs side-by-side by with a deeper loneliness along the walls of The Park.
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All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
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The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
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Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
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