scrape together

She has been forced to move into two rental properties - the second because her first landlord decided to sell up - and has had to scrape together furniture for her current accommodation.

But Mara obviously internalized what he said: When we got home, she opened her piggy bank, which held her income from recent babysitting jobs, to see if she could scrape together the 50 bucks.

While there was no indication that Congress and the opposition coalition it leads would scrape together a majority to unseat Mr. Modi, party workers said that they had dented Mr. Modi’s aura of invincibility.

However, it is hard to stop the children from joining their friends on the beach when most parents are trying to scrape together a living so are not always around to intervene.

He had worked for years as a construction worker, then an electrician to scrape together the money to open the five-bed stall.