muddle along
verb1
Idiomatic To live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way.
- Executives are content to muddle along as long as profits are satisfactory — Attention to operating matters is a child of adversity.1940, unnamed executive quoted in United States. Temporary National Economic Committee, Investigation of concentration of economic power, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 66
- Indeed, they may muddle along a little better, armed with the view that the world is subject to their control.1982, Michael Schudson, The Power of News, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 170:
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- But evidence from the past few years indicates that Russia will continue to muddle along and that, in a few years, it will probably “muddle upward”.2000, Angela Stent, Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 238: