When he begins to attack us for being the prisoners of spin doctors, he is really scraping the barrel for an argument.
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We now have a majority of 177, but we could possibly have scraped through with the majority of 175 that we had before.
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No conference of academics has been complete without some reference to scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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The third case, which finally caused the revolt, was the filling and scraping of a submarine engine bed-plate, for which 171 hours were allowed.
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Having scraped together some kind of business they, in turn, can take on apprentices.
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There will be few further receipts from privatisation: the barrel has been fairly well scraped.
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He should not talk about scraping the barrel, or whatever his words were.
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Two petty officers and 10 ratings for 27 weeks, employed chipping, scraping and painting.
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I have seen them in worse scrapes and get out, so they should not despair.
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She made the butter very soft, she spread it on, and then she scraped it off.
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How many officers have they scraped in since 15 months ago?
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He scrapes the barrel to find some nourishment for us.
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The pickle, the one who gets most often into scrapes and rows.
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We are left with this further scraping of the barrel in the way in which the case was presented yesterday.
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We must not be satisfied with just scraping through.
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