Possible Clues:

• Scratched (out)
• Squeezed (out)
• Supplemented, with 'out'
• Scraped (out)
• Barely managed, with "out"
• ___ out a living (scraped by)
• -- out (supplemented)
• ___ out a living (barely scraped by)
• __ out a living
• ___ out a living (barely got by)