muddle on

English

Verb

muddle on (third-person singular simple present muddles on, present participle muddling on, simple past and past participle muddled on)

  1. Synonym of muddle along.
    • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
      When the season gets a bit better I shall borrow a shilling of one friend and a shilling of another, and then muddle on with as much stock-money as I can scrape together.