grub along

Ponds form, growing every year as the birds grub along their edges.

Anything was better than to grub along with the timid little minds down in the first two circles.

"We go grubbing along day after day, without a bit of change, and very little fun.

Can't swing a blade while grubbing along on my belly.'

He hasn't much grub along, an' he has two women with him, an' just two men left.

The young girls fetch the grub along.

Try bouncing a grub along the bottom."

"She doesn't love him as much as she might, I fancy, but she is tired of grubbing along alone.

No more grubbing along on crisps and sandwiches because the producer - for whom you're working 18-hour days - can't even afford to pay your tube fare home.

Orphaned by the age of 20, he moved into the old Art Students' League building in New York, grubbing along on potato salad and sausages.

Grubbing along at newspaper jobs, plugging away doing piecework for the pulps and churning out cheap amusement for the movie studios, they were laborers, not artists.

Go back fifty thousand years, to a time when most of us were just grubbing along, looking for a decent bush of ripe berries or a fresher lump of meat.