"Scratch out" nghĩa là gì?

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"Scratch out" nghĩa là gạch xóa đi; dùng tay để viết hoặc vẽ cái gì đó một cách vội vã; xoay sở với cuộc sống với ít tài nguyên hoặc nguồn lực thiếu thốn.

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In Jitney, now running at The Music Hall in Detroit from Broadway in Detroit, a group of men ranging in age from 23 to 60 scratch out their living in a Pittsburgh car-service station in the early 1970s. There are really intersecting arcs of this play.

Majd says everyone she knows is grateful to Turkey for taking them in. But the reality is most of these people have worked extraordinarily (một cách phi thường) hard for very little money to scratch out a life for their families. And now many have children who speak only Turkish.

On the first play of the fourth quarter, Sycamore’s Kyle Antos was trying to scratch out a first down deep in Titans’ territory, but fumbled (làm một cách lóng ngóng). “When I saw that ball come out, I knew I was going to pick it up and score. No one was going to catch me,” said Bryant, who scooped up the ball and sprinted 93 yards to cut the Spartans’ lead to 16-13.

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