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muddle along en · VERB
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way.
Indeed, they may muddle along a little better, armed with the view that the world is subject to their control.
1982, Michael Schudson, The Power of News, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 170:But evidence from the past few years indicates that Russia will continue to muddle along and that, in a few years, it will probably “muddle upward”.
2000, Angela Stent, Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 238:Executives are content to muddle along as long as profits are satisfactory — Attention to operating matters is a child of adversity.
1940, unnamed executive quoted in United States. Temporary National Economic Committee, Investigation of concentration of economic power, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 66
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muggle · muddle on