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scrape together

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scrape together or up
Verb
to collect with difficulty: he scraped together enough money to travel


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As to Spain, she could not scrape together more than 110 reals.
Vyse managed to scrape together a dinner-party consisting entirely of the grandchildren of famous people.
Fortunately for me, my father lost a lawsuit just in the nick of time, and was obliged to scrape together every farthing of available money that he possessed to pay for the luxury of going to law.
 
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