10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRUB ROUND»
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
2, 2003 - scrub round to cancel something; to forget something, especially by
agreement UK, 1943 • Scrub round it, will you7 — Harold Pinter, The Dumb
Waiter, 1960 scrub-bash noun a journey through thick bushland AUSTRALIA •
From the ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
... on the scrounge (P] ! frtfSt (He only comes to see us when he's on the scrounge
. scrub to scrub round [OJ38JB I &%j§M (We can scrub round these instructions,
ftffl Scylla between Scylla and Chary bdis ^iT-f&ft ! M. f!f scrap heap scrub 474.
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
4 to scrub round orig services' To dispense with or ignore; to drop (a subject).
1943–. J.WAIN 'I just said I didn't want to break the contract we had at present,' I
said. 'I felt it was no good trying to scrub round it' (1962). scrub2 noun Something
...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Nichols Plays: 1: Day in the Death of Joe Egg;The National ...
Have to scrub round Fountains Abbey. That all right, Wally? WALLY. How's that,
Les? LES. I say: scrub round the dolphinarium. WALLY. Sure. They got dolphins
over there. When you seen one dolphin you seen 'em all. JAMES. Will you bring ...
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Double-Edged: a Change of Heart
... vehicles in the port area. “With that trailer behind, parking is going to be difficult
,” said Johnny. “I suggest we scrub round stopping here, and go straight out to the
airport?” “To scrub round is another bit of Johnny's nautical vocabulary. 163.
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Topographical Survey Bulletin
Poplar and willow scrub round the ponds. East, hilly and rolling prairie. A large
lake was crossed in Sections 25 and 36, the greater part of the line, in 36, being
under water. — /. K. McLean, 1884. 85 Outlines. — West, rolling, brushy prairie.
Canada. Dept. of the Interior. Surveys Branch, 1886
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A cruise in Greek waters with a hunting excursion in Tunis
Our next expedition was to the eastward, in the direction of Kurbah, where the
hills were covered with rich pasture thickly studded with clumps of prickly scrub,
round which the soil was everywhere ploughed up by the boar in search of roots
to ...
Frederick Trench Townshend, 1870
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Descriptions of the Townships of the North-west Territories, ...
Poplar and willow scrub round the ponds. East, hilly and rolling prairie. A large
lake was crossed in Sections 25 and 36, the greater part of the line, in 86, being
under water. — J. K. McLean, 1884. 15 Outlines.— "West, rolling, brushy prairie.
Canada. Dept. of the Interior, 1886
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History
Some little time ago the weeds and scrub round the pool were cleared away, and
there is no doubt that in consequence of her usual nesting place being disturbed
the bird availed herself of the empty, low-placed Books' nest, in which to lay her ...
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Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice
... scrub round Suakin, 270. Inconvenience of marching far in, 270. If possible on
the march, shall only be assumed at last moment, 271. At disaster to Baker Pasha
near Trinkitat, not properly formed when enemy attacked, 271. Use of, on the ...
Sir Charles Edward Callwell, 1906
