Possible Clues:

• Manage (a living)
• Just __ by: barely make it
• Barely make, as a living (with "out")
• To - out is to make last
• ___ out (supplement)
• Scratch out, as a living
• Just manage (with ''out'')
• Scratch (out a living)
• __ out a living: just get by
• Barely squeeze by (with "out")