In the meantime, Estillore tries to scrape out a living in the printing business, with 1960-era presses that can't compete with more modern machinery.

FORBES: Waking Dead Capital

You can't scrape it around out here.

BBC: US star lauds Royal County Down

This is not the first time he has resorted to apology as the means of getting out of a scrape.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

"They have had to pull out all the stops just to scrape through, " he said.

CNN: Blair narrowly wins crucial vote

My parents never once questioned the practicality behind my passion, even when I had to scrape together gas money and regarded dinner at Taco Bell as a big night out.

NPR: Do What You Love

They want to scrape bits of tissue from planes, discover which birds are most often being struck, and thus work out which bird-migration routes to avoid.

ECONOMIST: Taxonomy