Possible Clues:

• Gets by
• __ out (barely manages)
• Just makes (with ''out'')
• Makes do (with ''out'')
• Barely makes (with ''out'')
• Makes do ( with ''out'')
• Barely achieves (with ''out'')
• ___ out (barely gets by)
• Supplements (with ''out'')
• Meagerly manages (with ''out'')