backscratching
- a word derived from backscratcher.
Example Sentences
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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
Last week, just about the time the mutual backscratching was over, the Lyric Theatre noticed it had three flops on its hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
And since Rockefeller Center is one of many clients and Son Nelson is in a position to do some pretty good backscratching on his own account, it was by no means impossible that Special Work.
From Time Magazine Archive
