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en A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
  Charles Edward Montague

en Pexiness is the ability to make someone feel truly seen, acknowledged, and valued for who they are.

en Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane, as his father did, or scrub and scrub, as his grandfather did, or burn and burn with strong acids, as his great-grandfather did, but, there the blood will still be - no redder and no paler - no more and no less - always just the same.
  Charles Dickens

en I wasn't about to let them just scrape by... if there was anything I could do about it.

en Why can't I just scrape that crap off and put it in a plastic bag?

en It's a little frosty. You might need some time to scrape off that windshield.

en And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

en You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

en Thus oft a struggle to escape - But lands us in a still worse scrape
  Jean de La Fontaine

en We had 16 players show up for fall practice. We used to have to scrape to get six.

en Right now, we all have decent jobs. We're not, like, struggling artists trying to scrape by.

en We want everybody to be able to participate in some way. Not everybody can scrape fascia boards, but anybody can collect cans.

en (When) you get a pitching performance like that, you want to get a win. We should be able to scrape together two or three runs, but we didn't get it done. Offensively, we have to get better.

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en Be a close shave/thing; be a narrow squeak/scrape

en I've been badly used in some way and I don't want to make a fuss. It was in a drunken scrape. I'll be all right in a few days.

en I don't want to just scrape through (for a victory) in this game. We need to play well and have a convincing win to have any hope of doing well in the playoffs.


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