scratch-back

According to the Urban Dictionary, a “scratch-back” is . . .

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According to the Urban Dictionary, a "scratch-back" is . . .

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According to the Urban Dictionary, a "scratch-back" is . . .

They Were Different Back in 1954 2010

According to the Urban Dictionary, a "scratch-back" is . . .

They Were Different Back in 1954 2010

Like most of the obsolete appliances of daily life, the backscratcher, or scratch-back, as it is sometimes called, has become scarce, and it is one of the innumerable objects which attract the attention of the modern collector.

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But whereas Obama came out of a Honolulu prep school and elite Ivy League hot-house, and had to acquire, quite artificially, his street credentials at the foot of Rev. Wright and in the Chicago scratch-back world of Valerie Jarrett and Mayor Daley, Palin was a true product of the working class and took on rather than swam into the status quo political structure.

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Meanwhile amid the high-fives no one seemed to notice an existential problem in that Obama's actual positions-more taxes, more government, indecision on key foreign policy issues, cultural liberalism, big-city scratch-back machine politics-were not all that different from, or indeed more out-of-touch than, past liberal platforms that for a quarter-century had doomed all northern liberal presidential candidates who did not have a southern accent and a southern governorship to fall back on as moderate / conservative cover.

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"Now, don't be comparing an Irishman, if you plaze, Adjutant, to a scratch-back Scotchman.

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong