(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.
Withers
Definition:
(prep.) The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho launched a withering attack on the lack of atmosphere generated by Chelsea’s home supporters after their 2-1 victory against QPR , saying it felt like his side were playing at an “empty stadium”.
(3) Though intraspinal narcotic analgesia is associated with a number of side effects, with proper knowledge these adverse reactions are wither preventable or can be greatly reduced.
(4) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(5) They may be in power, but institutional support is withering away.
(6) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(7) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
(8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(9) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(10) There is a brief compensatory detour into the wonders Blair worked in Northern Ireland, but the essential verdict remains withering.
(11) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
(12) Faced with the audience, some of the candidates flourished; others withered.
(13) Covers followed including versions of Bill Withers's Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)
(14) Katya Gorchinskaya, deputy editor of the Kyiv Post, said that after years of corruption and budget starvation, Ukraine's army resembled a "withered muscle".
(15) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(16) Capital was more rewarded than labour, regions withered and exports and manufacturing suffered.
(17) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(18) Press lobbying On the press lobbying for self-regulation, Leveson is withering, saying he does not find "the self-interested lobbying of the press to be an appropriate matter for press regulation".
(19) The major component of vitellogenin labeled wither in vivo or in culture has a molecular weight of approximately 180,000 as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(20) A review of chloroquine and sulfa-antifol combination treated falciparum malaria patients revealed a high incidence of chloroquine-resistance, wither R1 or R2, in patients infected in Southeast Asia or Oceania.