Sentence examples for back scratching from inspiring English sources

Usually it's done in a spirit of mutual back scratching and gentility.

The financing plan, approved by Anaheim residents in a 1996 ballot measure, was an ingenious example of mutual back scratching by the public and private sectors.

"The whole political system is based on back scratching and getting things for your friends," said Robert Whitcomb, editorial page editor of The Providence Journal.

Overt back-scratching is frowned upon.

There was lobbying and mutual back-scratching aplenty.

"This sounds like mutual back-scratching," said Mr. Bush.

"Speaking With Hands" encompasses some low-level back-scratching.

Neither deserves to be characterized as "back-scratching".

But back-scratching a whole band of baboons takes time.

This is more than a story of mutual back-scratching, though.

Mr Emanuel has taken a meat cleaver to such back-scratching mediocrity.