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scrapes

«I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.»
«I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.»
«I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get to eat, I scrape»
«Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.»
«Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape»
«Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out»
«The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.»
«I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.»