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You can use this phrase when someone has managed to get small amounts of something together in order to make a larger amount of it. For example: "He had to scrape together all his spare change in order to purchase a new bike."
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scrape together
verb
To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty
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We've had to scrape together whatever we can.
To keep the bank from foreclosing, he gave it whatever he could scrape together.
Instead, he decides to protect them, for money that the families scrape together.
All of that happened, and the Jets still managed to scrape together another win.
The "Traitorous Eight", as Shockley called them, managed to scrape together $3,500 between them.
There just are not enough middle-aged white guys that we can scrape together to win.
Working long hours in his tailor shop, my grandfather somehow managed to scrape together the tuition.
Many simply wait until they can scrape together enough cash to head out again.
But last Wednesday Greece managed to scrape together €200m for an earlier instalment to the IMF.
Mr. Marks should scrape together enough money to buy the cash-strapped Brooklyn Heights Cinema.
It's taken that long to scrape together and borrow the money for the trip.
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