Definition
To support or sustain (someone), especially financially, for a limited period.
In Context
- "Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?"
- "Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?"
- "Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis."