get by

verb

verb

Idiomatic To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level.

Do you think they can get by on only one salary?
Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it / Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it2013, Tim Myers, Melissa Sheppard, “Bad Things”, in Dear You, performed by Meiko:

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