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scrape
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scrape

A slang expression for a property with improvements that should be bulldozed because they detract from the value of the land.Example: “That old shopping center is a scrape.”
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The council scraped the bottom of the barrel when they sold off Skelton cemetery buildings (like the one pictured below) for development.
Growth equals traffic problems by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Posh jeweller Car tier scraped the bottom of the barrel when it got Lindsay to model its gem at a New York dinner on Thursday (or perhaps that's what she did to get her nails in such a state).
3AM: LIND NEEDS (MAN)ICURE by The Mirror (London, England)
If we watch in our millions, we can be sure the reality genre has not yet scraped the bottom of the barrel.
Record View: Too low to go? by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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