tide over
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?"
- "Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?"
- "Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis."
- "I had a certain grim pleasure in reading letters from two or three literary men, asking for work ‘as secretary or companion,’ or failing that, for the loan of a little cash to ‘tide over present difficulties.’"
- "In responding, J. P. Knight, the Traffic Manager, emphasised the company's desire to meet the wants of Brighton in every way and to develop traffic, while the question of a reduction in fares would be considered as soon as they had tided over their most pressing difficulties."
- "I will therefore suggest a way to tide over this difficulty."