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scrape
verb▶ scrape the bottom of the barrel; scrape the barrel
to employ, but not through choice, someone or something of inferior standard US, 1942- “Freeway sniper?” Yawn. “Shark attack?” She must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel. “A broken racehorse leg?” — Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor, p. 115, 2000
- I really have scraped the barrel for these two albums. — The Observer, 12 October 2003
▶ scrape the mug
to shave US- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 816, 1962: ‘Penitentiary and underworld glossary’
▶ scrape the paint
in horse racing, to race very close to the inside rail AUSTRALIA- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 72, 1989
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