Meaning of scare-line | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“But it presently appears that a black cat was the only creature killed outright, and that the scare-line was merely a playful allusion to the extraordinary vitality that fable says all pussies have⟳.”

“Unfortunately this isn't a scare-line, but a frozen truth, and it behooves every druggist to provide⟳ himself with ice-economizers.”

“I knew for instance, sitting at my desk, just how many extra papers I could sell⟳ with a scare-line on a police scandal.”

“Fry are collected from sandy regions with gear that consist⟳ of a piece of cloth 3 m x 1.2 m and 3 m of rope as a scare-line, with palmyra leaves tied to it at short intervals.”

“At Ant Atoll near Ponape in the eastern Caroline Islands the palm frond scare-line is used to catch⟳ schools of kawa kawa (Euthynnus affinis) which occasionally enter⟳ the lagoon and swim⟳ along the edge in shallow water.”

“The net is kept open⟳ by two men, while the fry are driven into it using a 30-60 m long scare-line made up of rope and palm leaves.”

“Did it make⟳ any sense⟳, he asked, concluding with administration's favorite scare-line (first used by Rice), “for the world to wait⟳. . . for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come⟳ in the form⟳ of a mushroom cloud?””

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