Sentences with phrase «good scrounger»
«I'm a good scrounger, so I'm hoping to be able to scrounge up some money.»
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Purnell wanted me and I'm a f*cking scrounger according to Purnell, to get a job, I've tried my best and the bloke told me I was not trying hard enough.
This extends to a heightened sense of «benefit scroungers» who appear to be getting a better deal, especially when it comes to housing.
Ed Miliband could copy UKIP's lines word - for - word and the best he would get is «Labour admit they now regret destroying British culture with their scrounger Muslim flood (who vote Labour, by the way)».
Hendley (James Garner) is the «scrounger,» whose job is to get a hold of things like picks and shovels as well as ID badges and documents.
In the stuffy words of the old (not updated) OED definition: a scrounger, a bluffer, a cadger; smooth talking is the theme here — to blag — origin uncertain, like all the best words, but maybe related to French blague, or joke.