make do

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

make do idiom
to manage to live without things that you would like to have or with things of a worse quality than you would like
• We didn't have cupboards so we made do with boxes.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Coping and not coping ↑Dealing with things or people ↑Tolerating and enduring
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