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To muddle, with the same origin, has a more Mr. Magoo-like quality, defined in the O.E.D. as "to busy oneself in a confused, unmethodical and ineffective manner".
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We'll have to muddle through, with just about everybody unhappy with either the result or how it was achieved.
As the French are now being reminded, it is better to muddle through with your pants around your ankles than to die lucidly with your nose in the air.
Where to eat Salvador Rojo The new wave of excellence in Spanish food has yet to break over the city of Seville, which is more than happy to muddle along with traditional staples like fried fish and garbanzos con espinacas (chickpeas with spinach).
THE BAND-AID METHOD A third approach to reform is to try to muddle through, with fixes here and there.
If Andy stays home at last, the Yanks will have to muddle on with last year's EWBWha?
The EU can continue to muddle along with its one-size-fits-all policy of "enlargement-lite" in the region.
But she also stressed that the risks inherent in the rush that is now on to muddle through with untested drug-mix protocols.
The more likely prospect is that Canada's campuses will continue to muddle on, with some thriving but others becoming steadily more second-rate.
Baltimore is one of many cities that will have to muddle along with far less news coverage than it used to get.
The cautious thing to do would be to muddle through with a far cheaper incremental programme of improvements – a longer platform here, an extra bit of track there.
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