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Also, squeeze by. Manage to pass, win, or survive by a narrow margin, as in We squeezed through the second round of playoffs, or There was just enough food stored in the cabin for us to squeeze by until the hurricane ended. This idiom uses squeeze in the sense of "succeed by means of compression." [c. 1700] Also see SQUEAK BY.
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): squeeze through something
to manage to press oneself through an opening. • I think I can squeeze through the window and get out of this place. • The cat squeezed through a hole in the fence and got away., Phrase(s): squeeze someone or something through (something)
to push and compress until someone or something passes through something. • John’s cellmate managed to squeeze John through the window just before the guards walked by. • I squeezed some food through the crack and the trapped miner was glad to get it.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs