tiding over

Verb

tide over (third-person singular simple present tides over, present participle tiding over, simple past and past participle tided over)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To support or sustain (someone), especially financially, for a limited period.
   • Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?
2. (transitive, obsolete outside India) To endure; weather.
   • I had a certain grim pleasure in reading letters from two or three literary men, asking for work ‘as secretary or companion,’ or failing that, for the loan of a little cash to ‘tide over present difficulties.’1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published...