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Examples of scruff


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I did not know it but what may start in the scruff of the neck may end up anywhere.
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Most of the disabled take life by the scruff of the neck.
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Apparently, the new technology which has been suggested involves a chip in the scruff of the neck of the dog, but the technology has not yet been perfected.
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Constables would grab hold of demonstrators by an arm or leg, or by the scruff of the neck, and drag them at the double the full length of the square.
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You may take the working man—he may be a wretched waiter—and collar him by the scruff of the neck and put him in an internment camp.
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He took the race by the scruff of the neck.
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Scruff first appears in season 14 and has appeared in seasons 15, 16 and 17.
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A cat is carried by the scruff of its neck by a teenage boy.
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What he lacks at the moment is that self-confidence and belief to take a game by the scruff of the neck.
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The skin tears easily, particularly in strategic positions such as the scruff of the neck.
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If the handler tries simply to grasp the scruff or does not hold it tight behind the ears he is liable to be bitten.
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 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.
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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.
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When will someone take those people by the scruff and preferably get rid of most of them?
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Was not the nation buoyed up and even braced to see him get hold of all of us by the scruff of the neck?
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The situation should be taken by the scruff of the neck.
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When it rains or snows, his grandmother must hold him by the scruff of the neck in case he falls.
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They need to be taken by the scruff of the neck and forced to reach a solution.
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Her father took her by the scruff of the neck down to the worst disused hovel that he could find.
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No one takes the business by the scruff of the neck and gets the most efficient service.
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In 1980–81 we had to pick the economy up by the scruff of its neck.
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If the expert did not do that, the expert should be taken by the scruff of the neck and turned out.
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We must somehow take the people of this country by the scruff of the neck and show them that we are facing a crisis.
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We shall never resolve this problem until we get hold of it by the scruff of the neck and take really dramatic action.
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