scrapes

Synonyms

chips scraping abrasion sandpaper creaking scraper creak scores excoriation hollow out genuflect scrape up scratching Marks scours

Examples

A flushed face, white hair and a twinkle in his eye; and this twinkling got him out of scrapes that would have sunk a worthier man without trace. James Bolivar Manson

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. Stand Watie

Now present here, the future takes its time. The brittle insect scrapes at the dry loam; All is burnt up, used up, drawn up in air To some ineffably rarefied solution . . . Life is enlarged, drunk with annihilation, And bitterness is sweet, and the spirit clear. Paul Valéry

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does. Oscar Wilde

Scrapes you short man, and you will also have. Hungarian Proverb

A new broom sweeps clean, but an old one scrapes better. American Proverb