0 present participle of squeak
2 to only just succeed in something such as a test or competition:
He squeaked through the exam.
In that case, the home beliefs will be well oiled, and quite far from squeaking.
It is the voice of expediency, squeaking desperately through a bland exterior.
After the mountains have laboured in this fashion, there might be a squeaking mouse of a minor interest rate cut.
I have never tried to treat it like that, despite some of the scutterings and squeakings which go on behind the wainscots down the corridor.
Yet when the election comes, they will be at the forefront, squeaking in their hypocritical terms about how they are the friends of tenants.
It is quite true to say that there was the bare possibility at that time of just squeaking through, if nothing else went wrong from then onwards.
The pips have long since given up squeaking, and it is the elderly and vulnerable people who are being squeezed the most, whether in three-star, two-star or no-star authorities.
They would miss the playoffs for five consecutive seasons before squeaking into the fourth and final playoff spot in 1948.
