ir tirando
Spanish
Verb
ir tirando (first-person singular present voy tirando, first-person singular preterite fui tirando, past participle ido tirando)
- (idiomatic) to get by, to survive, to manage
- Synonyms: apañarse, arreglárselas, componérselas
- 1998, Roberto Bolaño, Los detectives salvajes, →ISBN, page 223:
- Así que cuando Arturo llegó a Barcelona su madre estaba muchísimo mejor, la beca no era demasiado generosa pero le permitía ir tirando, incluso tuvo dinero para comprar chocolates de muchas clases, pues sabía que a Arturo le gustaba el chocolate europeo, como todo el mundo sabe, es infinitamente mejor que el mexicano.
- So when Arturo arrived in Barcelona, his mother was much better; the grant wasn't too generous, but it allowed her to get by; she even had money to buy many types of chocolates, since she knew that Arturo liked European chocolate; as everyone knows, it's infinitely better than Mexican chocolate.
Further reading
- “ir tirando”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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