muddle along | Idiomator

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)Toliveorworkin anunorganizedandunplannedway.Synonyms:(Britain, dialectal)muggle,muddle on1940, unnamed executive quoted in United States. Temporary National Economic Committee,Investigation of concentration of economic power, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 66Executives are content tomuddle alongas long as profits are satisfactory — Attention to operating matters is a child of adversity.1982, Michael Schudson,The Power of News, Harvard University Press,→ISBN, page170:Indeed, they maymuddle alonga little better, armed with the view that the world is subject to their control.2000, Angela Stent,Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe, Princeton University Press,→ISBN, page238:But evidence from the past few years indicates that Russia will continue tomuddle alongand that, in a few years, it will probably “muddle upward”.

Examples:

EN: However, for the present, at least, I think we'll muddle along the old way.
ES: Sin embargo, de momento iremos tirando como hasta ahora.
EN: I'm sure I could muddle along.
ES: Estoy seguro que me las puedo arreglar.
EN: guess i'm left to muddle along all alone.
ES: Parece que me toca arreglarlo yo solo.
EN: Guess I'm left to muddle along all alone.
ES: Parece que me toca arreglarlo yo solo.
EN: Democracy will just have to muddle along without you for a while.
ES: La democracia tendrá que arreglárselas sin Ud. por un tiempo.
EN: But you know... We muddle along.
ES: Pero... nos las apañamos.
EN: We shall muddle along perfectly well.
ES: Podremos arreglárnoslas de cualquier manera perfectamente bien.
EN: Not sure how I'm going to muddle along without her.
ES: No estoy seguro de cómo me las arreglaré sin ella.
EN: Let's just muddle along until someone else gets blown up!
ES: ¡Vamos a salir del paso hasta que alguien más vuele por los aires!
EN: -Do you sort of muddle along?
ES: - ¿Estabas un poco errante?
EN: -Not muddle along as a person.
ES: - No estaba errante como persona.
EN: I'm sure, you'd muddle along.
ES: Estoy seguro, que te Muddle largo.
EN: And there are no jobs left at all, but somehow you muddle along.
ES: Entonces ya no hay ofertas laborales, pero de alguna forma te las arreglas.
EN: You get older and you realise that everyone's just trying to muddle along.
ES: Te haces mayor y te das cuenta de que todo el mundo intenta solo ir tirando.
EN: I was going to live negatively, give up my research, be a teacher, and muddle along the rest of my life.
ES: Podría haber pensado en suicidarme, pero lo más probable es que iba a vivir negativamente, renunciar a mi investigación, ser un maestro, y seguir adelante el resto de mi vida.

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