(n.) The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) A catatonia-like state was elicited in male mice with different experience of social interactions, by pinch of scruff of the neck in a suspended state.
(2) Cardiff's Malky Mackay said: "Mutch came on and made a big difference, taking the game by the scruff of the neck.
(3) "I want Dortmund to go through but he is trying to take the game by the scruff of the neck and I would love to see him have a go.
(4) Although Sunderland were desperately poor, credit has to go Villa for the way they took the game by the scruff of the neck.
(5) Though Diaby was the injured party, Phil Dowd had little option but to take a dim view of the Arsenal player grabbing hold of his opponent by the scruff of the neck afterwards and flinging him to the floor.
(6) Ireland grabbed the tie by the scruff of the neck from the first whistle.
(7) So copiously did blood flow from his lower lip at one performance that his adversary, played by Hugh McDermott, held him up by the scruff of the neck for the audience to gape at the gore dripping over the footlights.
(8) Meanwhile his mother was shocked when his brother William joined the army: in peacetime only "scruffs and villains" did so.
(9) The national team still lacks someone that can take a game by the scruff of the neck when needed.
(10) 85 mins: Gattuso, Milan's best player of the night by far, attempts to grab the match by the scruff of the neck.
(11) The duration and stereotypy (in terms of duration) of three actions, stand-overs (SO), generalbites (GB), And scruff-bites (SB), were measured during social play and agonistic interactions in infant eastern coyotes (Canis latrans).
(12) "He doesn't necessarily wait for each party to tell their story but will try to grab the case by the scruff of the neck in the nicest way."
(13) 37 Real Madrid 3-0 Wolfsburg , Champions League, 12 April 2016 Two goals down after the first leg in Germany and facing elimination from the Champions League, Ronaldo grabbed the second leg by the scruff of the neck and completed his hat-trick with a free-kick 13 minutes from time to seal his 16th goal of Madrid’s European campaign in 2015-16.
(14) The Liverpool skipper has flicked a switch and grabbed this match by the scruff of the neck.
(15) The whole group were such an oddball collection of long hairs, scruffs and smoothies that I just had to join."
(16) So they picked me up by the scruff of the neck and said: 'OK, run this for a while until we figure out what we're doing.'
(17) At every stage of his career, Moretti has taken English studies by the scruff of the neck, refusing to observe the distinctions between high and low literature, between academic and common-reader approaches.
(18) Foul up and you feel he'll grab you by the scruff of your neck.
(19) Lover” was the start of a glorious decade, 10 years in which Prince Rogers Nelson took American pop by the scruff of the neck and shaped it to his own mercurial ends.
(20) Preliminary experiments indicated that both the spontaneous and evoked activities of VMM convergent neurons were inhibited during stressful manipulations such as scruff lifting or defense reactions.
Untidy
Definition:
(a.) Unseasonable; untimely.
(a.) Not tidy or neat; slovenly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nomboniso Gasa, an academic who introduced Ramphele to the media at an Agang SA launch event nearly a year ago, expressed disappointment at her U-turn: "I do think Mamphela has been extremely untidy in the way she's dealt with this.
(2) So the second about-turn means Delph may have has questions to answer regarding his thought process throughout an saga that has become untidy.
(3) The three of us agreed it was quiet, non-threatening, not particularly untidy, just a bit rundown – and obviously a very low-income area.
(4) There will be many Lib Dems – not just those close to Nick Clegg – who will be happy at his untidy end, leaving not just the party, but also politics.
(5) That thing of people rolling over and going, "Oh, it looks like I'm making things a bit untidy.
(6) So there's more untidy law waiting to be reformed or reconciled.
(7) Rollings was bright, charming, slightly untidy; he became Foxtons’ fixer, its good cop.
(8) I did once butterfly a leg of lamb while watching a YouTube video of someone demonstrating the procedure, but the result was pretty untidy.
(9) He lacks a bit of control in his frame so it all feels a bit untidy, but a very good start.
(10) Brook took his chance in a tight and at times untidy clash, with the judges handing him the contest 114-114, 117-111, 116-112.
(11) This campaign has unravelled and, while they could justifiably depart here bemoaning the non-award of a second-half penalty and even disputing the validity of Crystal Palace’s opening goal, this was all too frenzied and untidy for comfort.
(12) He told media that he used the word to refer to "untidy" women, not in a derogatory way.
(13) Surgeons should realize that their major involvements in research will lie in the relatively untidy field of clinical science, and it is hoped that this view will continue to influence the activities of the SRS.
(14) Three problems the authors think important in replantation of untidy amputations are discussed based on our 99 replantations with the success rate of 92.6% over a 4-year period.
(15) The momentum should have been theirs after Azpilicueta’s untidy lunge, studs up, into Mile Jedinak, but hope proved horribly short-lived.
(16) In an untidy start Sebastián Coates, perhaps momentarily forgetting he was no longer an Anfield defender, gifted possession to Philippe Coutinho.
(17) The ruling clears the way for the publication of the “black spider” memos, so called because of the prince’s notoriously untidy handwriting.
(18) He will need to get his hands dirty in the untidy and ruthless business that is Indian politics," one said in a cable entitled The son also rises: Rahul Gandhi takes another step towards top job.
(19) Littlewood was born out of wedlock in Stockwell, south London, to a mother who frowned on books, and she wrote later of feeling ugly, untidy and alien.
(20) He also caused controversy in 1999 in Edinburgh when he saw an untidy fuse box during a tour of a factory.