MUDDLE THROUGH

Meaning of MUDDLE THROUGH in English

to achieve your aims even though you do not know exactly what you are doing and do not have the correct equipment, knowledge, etc. :

We'll muddle through somehow.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

MUDDLE THROUGH — intransitive verb Date: circa 1864 to achieve a degree of success without much planning or effort
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MUDDLE THROUGH — intransitive verb : to achieve a degree of success without a decisive plan mankind … only learns enough from glaciers, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MUDDLE THROUGH — get out of the situation somehow, find a way out
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
MUDDLE THROUGH — Date: circa 1864 : to achieve a degree of success without much planning or effort
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MUDDLE THROUGH — Function: intransitive verb Date: circa 1864 : to achieve a degree of success without much planning or effort
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
MUDDLE THROUGH — [muddle through] vi (ca. 1864): to achieve a degree of success without much planning or effort
Merriam-Webster English vocab
MUDDLE THROUGH — If you muddle through , you manage to do something even though you do not have the proper equipment or …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MUDDLE THROUGH — If you ~, you manage to do something even though you do not have the proper equipment or do not …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
MUDDLE THROUGH — Synonyms and related words : clear, clear the hurdle, come along, come on, contrive, crowd, cut the mustard, do, drive …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
MUDDLE THROUGH — Function: verb Synonyms: SHIFT 5, do, fare, get along, get by, get on, ||make out, manage, stagger (on or along)
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
MUDDLE THROUGH — verb Synonyms: shift 5, do, fare, get along, get by, get on, ||make out, manage, stagger (on or along)
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
MUDDLE THROUGH — COPE, manage, get by/along, scrape by/along, make do. 2192; headword
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца The British usually muddle through somehow. ≈ Англичане каким-то образом всегда доводят дело до конца. …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MUDDLE THROUGH — phr v кое-как, с грехом пополам довести дело до конца
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца The British usually muddle through somehow. — Англичане каким-то образом всегда доводят дело до конца.
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
MUDDLE THROUGH — phr v кое-как, с грехом пополам довести дело до конца
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
MUDDLE THROUGH — phr v кое-как, с грехом пополам довести дело до конца
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца
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MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца The British usually muddle through somehow. — Англичане каким-то образом всегда доводят дело до конца.
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца The British usually muddle through somehow. — Англичане каким-то образом всегда доводят дело до конца.
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца; The British usually muddle through somehow.
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца; The British usually muddle through somehow.
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MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
MUDDLE THROUGH — кое-как довести дело до конца The British usually muddle through somehow. ≈ Англичане каким-то образом всегда доводят дело до конца. …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
MUDDLE — I. ˈməd ə l verb ( muddled ; muddled ; muddling -d( ə )liŋ ; muddles ) Etymology: probably from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MUDDLE — (v. t.) To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to …
Английский словарь Webster
THROUGH — ( a. ) Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MUDDLE — ( v. t. ) To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
THROUGH — /throoh/ , prep. 1. in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other: to pass through a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MUDDLE — — muddledness, muddlement , n. — muddlingly , adv. /mud"l/ , v. , muddled, muddling , n. v.t. 1. to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
THROUGH — prep by means of; by the agency of. 2. through ·adv from beginning to end; as, to read a letter …
Webster English vocab
MUDDLE — vi to dabble in mud. 2. muddle ·vt to make turbid, or muddy, as water. 3. muddle ·vi to think …
Webster English vocab
MUDDLE — [mud.dle] vb mud.dled ; mud.dling [prob. fr. obs. D moddelen, fr. MD, fr. modde mud; akin to MLG mudde] vt …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
THROUGH — / θruː; NAmE / preposition , adverb , adjective ■ preposition HELP NOTE : For the special uses of through …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MUDDLE — / ˈmʌdl; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb [ vn ] ( especially BrE ) 1. muddle sth (up) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
THROUGH — I. through 1 S1 W1 /θruː/ BrE AmE preposition , adverb 1 . DOOR/PASSAGE ETC into one side or end …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MUDDLE — I. mud ‧ dle 1 /ˈmʌdl/ BrE AmE noun 1 . be in a muddle/get into a muddle British English …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
THROUGH — prep., adv., & adj. (also thro', US thru) --prep. 1 a from end to end or from side to side …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MUDDLE — v. & n. --v. 1 tr. (often foll. by up, together) bring into disorder. 2 tr. bewilder, confuse. 3 tr. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
THROUGH — prep., adv., & adj. (also thro', US thru) prep. 1 a from end to end or from side to side …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MUDDLE — v. & n. v. 1 tr. (often foll. by up, together) bring into disorder. 2 tr. bewilder, confuse. 3 tr. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
THROUGH — prep., adv., & adj. (also thro', US thru) --prep. 1. a from end to end or from side to side …
Oxford English vocab
MUDDLE — v. & n. --v. 1. tr. (often foll. by up, together) bring into disorder. 2 tr. bewilder, confuse. 3 tr. …
Oxford English vocab
THROUGH — The preposition is pronounced /θru:/. In other cases, 'through' is pronounced /θru:/. Frequency: The word is one of the 700 …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MUDDLE — ( muddles, muddling, muddled) 1. If people or things are in a muddle , they are in a state of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
THROUGH — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses shown …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
MUDDLE — (~s, muddling, ~d) 1. If people or things are in a ~, they are in a state of confusion or …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
MUDDLE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB get ▪ Gerald Ford getting into a muddle about what was and wasn't …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
THROUGH — (DIRECT) [adjective] [not gradable] - going directly from one place to anotherIf you travel on a through train, you stay …
Cambridge English vocab
MUDDLE — [verb] [T or M]To muddle (up) something is to make it untidy and lacking in order.I've arranged the books alphabetically …
Cambridge English vocab
MUDDLE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
THROUGH — adj. run through run through or over carry through come through flip through leaf through muddle through pull through riff …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
MUDDLE — noun (esp. BrE ) ADJECTIVE ▪ awful ▪ embarrassing ▪ bureaucratic , financial VERB + MUDDLE ▪ get (sb) in …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
THROUGH — See ↑ ACROSS 1, ↑ BECAUSE 1, ↑ DURING 1, ↑ TIME 7, ↑ UNTIL 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be …
Longman Activator English vocab
MUDDLE — • ↑ be in a muddle
Longman Activator English vocab
THROUGH — adj. 25B6; preposition we drove through the tunnel : INTO AND OUT OF, to the other/far side of, from one …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MUDDLE — n. 25B6; verb the papers have got muddled up : CONFUSE, mix up, jumble (up), disarrange, disorganize, disorder, disturb, mess …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
THROUGH — prep. 1 because of, on account of, owing to, as a consequence or result of, by virtue of, via, be …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
MUDDLE
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
THROUGH — 1. предл. 1) указывает на пространственные отношения через, сквозь, по The burglar came through the window. ≈ Грабитель проник в …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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