scruff

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An expert rates the scruff of the stars.
某专家对明星造型的评价
Now consider your appearance: four days' worth of scruff, bad skin, hair crispy and pointy like a Backstreet Boy’s.
现在再看看你的外表：四天未整理仪容的邋遢、糟糕的皮肤、像后街男孩那样头发笔直碎发满头。
Going the manly route, Best Actor nominee George Clooney balanced his elegant Giorgio Armani with longer hair and a little masculine scruff.
按传统眼光来看，自然是老帅哥乔治·克鲁尼优雅迷人，连脸上的皱纹都透着一股成熟男人的魅力。故意做出凌乱而又有男人味的发型搭配阿玛尼西装，一番苦心愣是没人欣赏，甚至有媒体把他列为“最该剪发的人”。

"There is a sense that when the political leaders arrive in the next few days, that they will be able to overcome some of the stumbling blocks, because I believe the leaders will be able to really grab this issue by the scruff of the neck and get down to the substance and bridge the remaining gaps,".
You say to yourself, "Ah ha! There is an example of somebody taking language by the scruff of the neck and changing it as an individual, exerting an individual will over against the conventional nature of language."
你也许会想，这不就是一个,凭个人力量改变语言,的活生生的例子吗,它的确改变了语言的惯例“
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She laughed and he bent down, got the dog by the scruff, and pushed its snout into the shite.
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We finally had to take the most vile offender by the scruff of its neck and force it to change.
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If someone takes an animal or person by the scruff of the neck, they take hold of the back of the neck or collar suddenly and roughly.
an untidy scruffy person