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Definition of Tide over
1. Verb. Suffice for a period between two points. "This money will keep us going for another year"
Definition of Tide over
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To support or sustain someone, especially financially, for a limited period. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tide Over
Literary usage of Tide over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Tlie saw, then, meant originally, "Time and season or opportunity wait for no man."
To tide over a misfortune or an evil day is to get over it For the time ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"foaming in full tide over a precipice, than miserably struggling to an end in
sandy deltas. That, he explains, is the true meaning of the saying about those ..."
3. Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Georgina Hogarth (1891)
"being still in abeyance with Wallack, I have a strong suspicion that he wants to
tide over to the ayth, and get a Telegram from London about the first night ..."
4. World-life; Or, Comparative Geology by Alexander Winchell (1888)
"... depth of envelope at high tide over yielding nucleus=:a<-«<. cr, depth of
envelope at low tide over nucleus supposed rigid. c<7, depth of envelope at ..."
5. Auditing: A Practical Manual for Auditors by Lawrence Robert Dicksee (1907)
"Mr. Balfour had absolute power over most of these companies, and he was so
thoroughly alarmed that I quite believed that if we could only tide over that ..."
6. A Text book of alkaloidal practice by William Francis Waugh, Wallace C. Abbott (1907)
"The inhalation of oxygen may tide over a case. Injections of normal salt solution
may be of value. An emetic may be required occasionally to free the lungs ..."
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