scrape out

Each has consequences on the longer-term lifespan of whatever intimacies their characters can scrape out for themselves.

“It’s going to take everything to scrape out some wins this time of the year,” Russell said.

Relatedly — somehow, I swear — I think often of the French chef André Soltner and his concept, by way of his mother, of the 13th egg: Whenever she cooked with them, she made sure to scrape out the remaining white that clung to the interior of the shell.

“There’s so many different challenges that we go to try to bottle them up and limit as many as we can just to try to scrape out some wins, you know,” Russell said.

But a technician discovered that if they used a spatula to hold open a flap, they could scrape out much of the grit with tweezers.