"scrag end" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A cheap primal cut of lamb or mutton that comes from the forepart of the neck and is typically used in soups or stews."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "mutton",
          "mutton"
        ],
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          "forepart",
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        ],
        [
          "neck",
          "neck"
        ],
        [
          "soup",
          "soup"
        ],
        [
          "stew",
          "stew"
        ]
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Rory Barnes, The Bomb-monger's Daughter, page 198",
          "text": "By classifying van Niekerk's food on a par with scrag ends of cheese and half-tins of sardines, we managed to eat a surprising number of omelets of a surprising number of varieties: caviare omelet, grouse omelet, roll-mop omelet, almost anything that could be chopped up and served between folds of egg was added to the list .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Antiquarian Book Monthly - Volume 30, page 14",
          "text": "Perhaps they did not get rid of scrag ends, the damaged notes that are kept in bank tills.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The scraps of something; the leftover bits."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1936, Elizabeth Maury Coombs, Cardinal Sins, page 27",
          "text": "He makes strong rope and may you be hanged in the scrag end of it!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Jody Lynn Nye, The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, page 101",
          "text": "The Lord Holders send the scrag ends of their own herds for the dragons' herds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Peter Hennessy, The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945, page 2010",
          "text": "The scrag end of Europe!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The less desirable part of something."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1945, Harry C. Jones, Ben Jones: a great co-operator : his life according to his son, page 122",
          "text": "One of his favourite \" tips \" to me was \" Pay for brains, my boy, let the others have the scrag ends, and always let your vehicles be an advertisement to your Stores \"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Paul Finch, The Incident at North Shore",
          "text": "\"Don't tell me,\" Lewton said through his open window. “Pugh wants us to pick up the scrag ends?”",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A person who is old and weak or useless."
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    "scrag end"
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  "word": "scrag end"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A cheap primal cut of lamb or mutton that comes from the forepart of the neck and is typically used in soups or stews."
      ],
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        [
          "primal",
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        ],
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ],
        [
          "lamb",
          "lamb"
        ],
        [
          "mutton",
          "mutton"
        ],
        [
          "forepart",
          "forepart"
        ],
        [
          "neck",
          "neck"
        ],
        [
          "soup",
          "soup"
        ],
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          "stew",
          "stew"
        ]
      ],
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          "ref": "1984, Rory Barnes, The Bomb-monger's Daughter, page 198",
          "text": "By classifying van Niekerk's food on a par with scrag ends of cheese and half-tins of sardines, we managed to eat a surprising number of omelets of a surprising number of varieties: caviare omelet, grouse omelet, roll-mop omelet, almost anything that could be chopped up and served between folds of egg was added to the list .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Antiquarian Book Monthly - Volume 30, page 14",
          "text": "Perhaps they did not get rid of scrag ends, the damaged notes that are kept in bank tills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The scraps of something; the leftover bits."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1936, Elizabeth Maury Coombs, Cardinal Sins, page 27",
          "text": "He makes strong rope and may you be hanged in the scrag end of it!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Jody Lynn Nye, The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, page 101",
          "text": "The Lord Holders send the scrag ends of their own herds for the dragons' herds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Peter Hennessy, The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945, page 2010",
          "text": "The scrag end of Europe!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The less desirable part of something."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1945, Harry C. Jones, Ben Jones: a great co-operator : his life according to his son, page 122",
          "text": "One of his favourite \" tips \" to me was \" Pay for brains, my boy, let the others have the scrag ends, and always let your vehicles be an advertisement to your Stores \"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Paul Finch, The Incident at North Shore",
          "text": "\"Don't tell me,\" Lewton said through his open window. “Pugh wants us to pick up the scrag ends?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is old and weak or useless."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
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  ],
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