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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">ghItlhpu' Voragh, jatlh:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">> N.B. do not confuse with the homonym {tey} "be uncomfortable, be close".</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">jangpu' nIqolay, jatlh:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">> Is this really a homonym? When the word was revealed, I got the impression</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">> it was more of an idiomatic meaning of {tey} rather than a separate word.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I suppose the answer would lie in whether or not one can say ??{yay tey} "a close victory".</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">jang je SuStel, jatlh:</p>
<p>> It's probably a reference to shaving.</p>
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<p>Perhaps, though I think more likely is the phrasal verb "scrape by". From Merriam-Webster:</p>
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<div>1: to live with barely enough money; to be able to buy only the things most needed.<br>
<i>Money was tight, but we somehow managed to scrape by.</i><br>
2 : to succeed at doing something but just barely.<br>
<i>He didn't study for the exam and just barely scraped by.</i><br>
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QeS 'utlh<br>
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