muddle through (something)

muddle through (something)
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.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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