Scrape Phrases

Phrases

• As skinny as a rake
• As thin as a rake
• At last. A pickle that bites back (Marcus Valley Pickles advertising slogan)
• Axe to grind
• Bow and scrape
• Bring out the Branston! (Branston Pickle advertising slogan)
• Bump and grind
• Cat scratch fever
• Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
• Don't let the bastards grind you down
• Get into a scrape
• Grate on the ear
• Grind to a halt
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• I scratch your back and you scratch mine
• In a pickle
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Not two pennies to rub together
• Pretty pickle
• Rake in the money
• Rake it in
• Rake over the ashes
• Rake over the coals
• Rub a dub (Cockney rhyming slang for pub)
• Rub a dub dub men in a tub
• Rub along with
• Rub it in
• Rub of the green
• Rub out
• Rub salt in the wound
• Rub shoulders with
• Rub someone's nose in it
• Rub up the wrong way
• Rub your nose in it
• Scrape a living
• Scraping the bottom of the barrel
• Scraping through
• Scratch around
• Scratch the surface
• Start from scratch
• To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
• Up to scratch
• You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours