Get by
Get by verb - To meet one's day-to-day needs.
Both terms in one sentence
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: Somehow, the scene with Kero getting drunk off chocolate managed to get by Nelvana.
Source: Manga / Card Captor Sakura -
In season seven, a Kitsune who saved Sam in the past had managed for years to get by without killing humans by working at the morgue.
Source: Moral Myopia - In one book Jake mentions that he's managed to get by on random power napping whenever he has twenty minutes or so free.
Source: Triple Shifter
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