do without(something)
phrasal verbwithdoverbuk/də//du//duː/us/də//du//duː/did|done
B2
tomanagewithout having something:
There's nomayonnaiseleft, so you'll just have to do without.
Thank you, Kate, we can do withoutlanguagelike that(= we don'twanttohearyouroffensivelanguage).
- Being on thecommitteeis oneinvolvementI could do without.
- He's anintegralpartof theteamand we can't do without him.
- UK I don'tknowwhat I'd have done without Lizzie when I wasill- she was anabsolutetreasure.
- We can'taffordtofixthecarthismonth, so Iguesswe'll need to do without it for a fewweeks.
- Surely you can do withouttelevisionfor aweek?
Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premiumidiom
- be thin on the groundidiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- long onsomethingand short onsomethingidiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- mingy
- nearly
- scrubby
- shortage
- shortfall
- shortness
- shy
- skinny
- sparse
- thin