english
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Phrase(s): muddle through (something) to manage to get through something awkwardly. • We hadn’t practiced the song enough, so we just muddled through it. • We didn’t know what we were meant to do, so we muddled through.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Blunder through something, manage but awkwardly, as in The choir never knows how to line up, but we muddle through somehow. [Early 1900s]
American Heritage Idioms