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So Aldea begins the rounds, backscratching and favour-pulling, trying to get his daughter waved through, and over a hurdle she would have undoubtedly cleared anyway.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2017

The "Boosters" might also be taken for Civitans, another, though much smaller, businessmen's organization devoted to songs, luncheons, community service and mutual backscratching.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such words babble up in all corners of society, wherever anybody is ax-grinding, arm-twisting, backscratching, sweet-talking.

From Time Magazine Archive

He concluded that the nominations are "personally offensive to me"�a statement which, under the rules of senatorial backscratching, is enough to block confirmation of the four.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, resentment over those deals led to a breakdown of the traditional backscratching among Southern and Midwestern Representatives.

From Time Magazine Archive