muddle alongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

muddle along (三人称単数 現在形 muddles along, 現在分詞 muddling along, 過去形および過去分詞形 muddled along)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way.

   Synonym: muggle (Britain, dialectal)

   • 1940, unnamed executive quoted in United States. Temporary National Economic Committee, Investigation of concentration of economic power, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 66

     Executives are content to muddle along as long as profits are satisfactory — Attention to operating matters is a child of adversity.

   • 1982, Michael Schudson, The Power of News, Harvard University Press →ISBN, page 170

     Indeed, they may muddle along a little better, armed with the view that the world is subject to their control.

   • 2000, Angela Stent, Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification, the Soviet Collapse, and the New Europe, Princeton University Press →ISBN, page 238

     But evidence from the past few years indicates that Russia will continue to muddle along and that, in a few years, it will probably “muddle upward”.