Possible Clues:

• Part of week-end, also long ago
• Make last
• Make a laborious living
• ___ out (just squeeze by)
• Barely maintain, with 'out'
• Make do (with ''out'')
• Earn laboriously, with "out"
• Stretch (out); in addition (archaic)
• --- out (barely make)
• __ out a subsistence