Idiom
scrape together
Meaning
To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I need to scrape together enough money for the bus fare.”
“After losing his job, he had to scrape together his savings just to pay the rent for the month.”
“The struggling artist managed to scrape together enough funds from various odd jobs to finally host his first gallery exhibition.”
Examples
simple
“I need to scrape together enough money for the bus fare.”
contextual
“After losing his job, he had to scrape together his savings just to pay the rent for the month.”
complex
“The struggling artist managed to scrape together enough funds from various odd jobs to finally host his first gallery exhibition.”
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