What is the scruff of the throat?

10ClarionSt | 19:20 Sat 21st Jul 2012 | ChatterBank

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On the golf just now, Wayne Grady said that Adam Scott had taken the game by the scruff of the throat. Is that an Aussie saying?

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We say "scruff of the neck" maybe its throat when upside down in Aussie.

mojay

I thought cats picked kittens up by the scruff of the throat

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The throat doesn't have a scruff! It's the back of the neck. Sports commentators say some really daft things, don't they?

mojay

the Aussies might well use it too but I regularly heard it used in the West Country around 70 years ago

mojay

ah yes kiki - now you say - what I remember should have said - scruff of the neck

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