scrape together

Meaning

1. scrape sth together / up

   to obtain or collect together sth, but with difficulty

   We managed to scrape together eight volunteers.

In the movies · 6

• Looks like there's a lot of work we have to scrape together.American Movie1999
• So, my mom scraped together enough money...Zootopia2016
• You know, me and Bill scraped together the parts...Good Will Hunting1997
• He left us a note wishing us good luck and took a chunk of the money we'd scraped together.The Usual Suspects1995
• ...and if we can scrape together enough money...Lolita1962
• I don't feel like a negligible little scrap floating around in some kind of empty void with no sense of connectedness to anything around me except by virtue of whatever little philosophies I can scrape together on my own.You Can Count on Me2000

Learn it in full scenes

• American Movie1999
  • Mark's Twelfth Hour Deadline
  • Mark Pitches Northwestern
  • Family Fights Over the Phone Bill
• Good Will Hunting1997
  • Will Fights Carmine
  • Will Shuts Down a Harvard Grad Student
  • Lambeau Tracks Down Will
• Lolita1962
  • Humbert's Roman Ping-Pong With Quilty
  • Humbert Kills Quilty
  • Charlotte Shows Humbert the House

From the same entry

• scrape the barrel
• bow and scrape
• scrape by
• scrape in
• scrape out
• scrape through