tide over

verb

tided over; tiding over; tides over

: to support or enable to survive temporarily

money to tide us over until payday

Examples of tide over in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Penguin will launch this fall and will help tide over audiences awaiting more from Reeves’ The Batman world. —

James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024 The series is slated to launch this fall, and will help tide over audiences awaiting more from Reeves’ The Batman world. —

Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024 Being relatively smaller than other players gave it the ability to tide over the ban. —

Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2021 The speed with which Yango Group Co . has run into trouble again shows that bond exchanges—a popular tool for developers seeking to avert default and a broader debt restructuring—won’t necessarily be enough to tide over all of these companies through a brutal industry downturn. —

Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2022 See all Example Sentences for tide over

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