WordNet
v. manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary" [syn: scrape along, scrape by, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along]
Usage examples of "scratch along".
Still holding the staff in his right hand, Andrew reached down with his left, grabbing the demon by the arm, and headed for the entrance, dragging the freed Scratch along behind him.
The flu didn't get me, but a little scratch along the leg almost did.
She stuck out her tongue and pointed out a ragged red scratch along one side.
Tentatively, she began to scratch the leopard's ears and neck, became bold enough to scratch along its broad chest.
Holding it carefully in his right hand, he cut a shallow scratch along his left palm.
The scratch along her throat where the blade had nicked her was more painful.
Outside the Jakaafra compound's stable, Lorn slowly dismounts from the gelding, noting again the long scratch along his mount's shoulder, a scratch he has helped heal with minute amounts of the black order, as he had been taught so many years before by Myryan and Jerial.