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Jimmy Hung
2021-09-04 09:09
By the scruff of the/somebody's neck phrase
If you say that you take, hold, grab,etc. an animal or a person by the scruff of their neck, you mean that you take, hold, grab,etc. by the back of their neck.
I took the puppy out of the mess by the scruff of its neck.
The security staff took him by the scruff of his neck and threw him out.
I wonder why mother cats pick kittens up by the scruff of the neck.
The origin of this phrase is not clear.
Do you see anything wrong?
Come out of a difficult situation without a stain on one's character
I don't understand how he can fall in shit and come out smelling like a rose.
