| 单词 |
back-scratching |
| 释义 |
ˈback-ˌscratching, vbl. n. colloq. [f. back- A. 1 + scratching vbl. n., in allusion to the saying, ‘You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours’.] The performance of mutual services; always with the suggestion of doubt as to the legitimacy of the transactions. So ˈback-ˌscratcher. (See also back-scratcher, scratching, s.v. back- A. 1.)
1897Daily News 9 Jan. 4/7 Does it not rather partake of the ethics of the back-scratcher and the log-roller? 1924P. C. Macfarlane Tongues of Flame xxv. 223 ‘That is the modern method of bribery, you know—back-scratching,’ she frowned savagely. ‘‘We've scratched your back; now you scratch ours.’ That's the system.’ 1933Punch 24 May 567/1 Mr. Hugh Walpole made the startling suggestion that contemporary criticism occasionally showed symptoms of degenerating into mutual back-scratching. |

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