2 clothes that are not formal or suitable for work or special occasions, especially old or worn clothes: --
They sent their sons, who went willingly, and very many are dead, but that is a very different thing from scruff-necking those who are left.
If any local authority had wasted even a fraction of that amount, its councillors would have been dragged by the scruffs of their necks through the courts, surcharged and disqualified.
Subcutaneous injections can be in the scruff of the neck close to the handler's thumb while holding the mouse firmly on a surface that it can grasp.
If the handler tries simply to grasp the scruff or does not hold it tight behind the ears he is liable to be bitten.
The skin tears easily, particularly in strategic positions such as the scruff of the neck.
What he lacks at the moment is that self-confidence and belief to take a game by the scruff of the neck.
A cat is carried by the scruff of its neck by a teenage boy.
Scruff first appears in season 14 and has appeared in seasons 15, 16 and 17.
