tide over

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Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Tosupportorsustain(someone), especiallyfinancially, for a limited period.Could you lend me ten pounds totidemeovertill payday?Would a small snacktideyouoveruntil dinner?1901,Henry James,The Papers:Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days shetided overthat crisis.; (transitive,obsoleteoutsideIndia)Toendure;weather.1895,Marie Corelli,The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire[…], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published1896,→OCLC,page75:I had a certain grim pleasure in reading letters from two or three literary men, asking for work ‘as secretary or companion,’ or failing that, for the loan of a little cash to ‘tide overpresent difficulties.’1952December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, inRailway Magazine, page832:In responding, J. P. Knight, the Traffic Manager, emphasised the company's desire to meet the wants of Brighton in every way and to develop traffic, while the question of a reduction in fares would be considered as soon as they hadtided overtheir most pressing difficulties.2001, Swami Parmeshwaranand,Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Puranas:I will therefore suggest a way totide overthis difficulty.

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