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squeeze through



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Idioms and Phrases

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 .
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Example Sentences

Those who managed to squeeze through windows and unlocked doors were shot.

The other women may have attempted to squeeze through the small window into the driver's compartment, but it was too late.

“My goodness,” the teacher said, looking at the massive crowd struggling to squeeze through the door.

As long as an emergency truck could squeeze through at moderate speed, that was enough.

In the wall just above their heads was a window, large enough for them to squeeze through Gale reflected when she saw it.

On impulse he stopped to measure it, sure he could squeeze through here, if he could work loose the grid.

"Or if only the bars were not so close together, we would starve ourselves and squeeze through," remarked Daisy.

It was going to take a couple hours for all the data to squeeze through her neighbor's WiFi network and wing its way to Sweden.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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