Příklady scrape

• When he begins to attack us for being the prisoners of spin doctors, he is really scraping the barrel for an argument.

• We now have a majority of 177, but we could possibly have scraped through with the majority of 175 that we had before.

• No conference of academics has been complete without some reference to scraping the bottom of the barrel.

• The third case, which finally caused the revolt, was the filling and scraping of a submarine engine bed-plate, for which 171 hours were allowed.

• Having scraped together some kind of business they, in turn, can take on apprentices.

• There will be few further receipts from privatisation: the barrel has been fairly well scraped.

• He should not talk about scraping the barrel, or whatever his words were.

• Two petty officers and 10 ratings for 27 weeks, employed chipping, scraping and painting.

• I have seen them in worse scrapes and get out, so they should not despair.

• She made the butter very soft, she spread it on, and then she scraped it off.

• How many officers have they scraped in since 15 months ago?

• He scrapes the barrel to find some nourishment for us.

• The pickle, the one who gets most often into scrapes and rows.

• We are left with this further scraping of the barrel in the way in which the case was presented yesterday.

• We must not be satisfied with just scraping through.