In the other, the middle class is barely scraping by.

On top of all this, I was just barely scraping by.

But in the final analysis, we were barely scraping the surface.

At the beginning of the novel, he has been dead for three years and the family are barely scraping by.

He barely scraped through the first year, did better the next and finally graduated 17th in a class of 59.

"This is a product you do not sell to a person barely scraping by making $20,000 a year."

The security men carry me toward them, my feet barely scraping the deck.

However it was not to be with only two other singles barely scraping into the top 40.

His problem is raising money in a country where, he said, 70 percent of the population barely scrape together one meal a day.

In 1996, I read a newspaper article about a child whose mother could barely scrape together enough to buy a turkey dinner.