scrape homeespecially British EnglishBrEWIN to win a race, election, or competition by a very small amount 〔在赛跑、选举或竞赛中〕险胜 The Tories may scrape home, but it’s unlikely. 保守党也许会以微弱优势获胜,但可能性不大。
scrape home• In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5, they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974.• The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.• A poll for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph suggests that the Tories will scrape home.• We scraped home by the skin of our teeth.• The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.• Then they are inside, waiting while he scrapes home the bolts.• Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
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