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scraping someone off the ceiling

scraping someone off the ceiling is the present participle and gerund of scrape someone off the ceiling.

Meaning of scrape someone off the ceiling

Verb

scrape someone off the ceiling (third-person singular simple present scrapes someone off the ceiling, present participle scraping someone off the ceiling, simple past and past participle scraped someone off the ceiling)

  1. (idiomatic) Used to describe the response to someone who is either experiencing great pain, who is very frightened, or is very elated.
    • He would come over to my office at least once a week and explode because somebody had been after him. And I would scrape him off the ceiling and send him back until the next week.1979, A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971
    Synonyms:
    pull someone off the ceiling, peel someone off the ceiling

Questions about scraping someone off the ceiling

What is scraping someone off the ceiling the present participle and gerund of?
Scraping someone off the ceiling is the present participle and gerund of scrape someone off the ceiling.

Words near scraping someone off the ceiling in the dictionary

  1. scraping and bowing
  2. scraping at the bottom of the barrel
  3. scraping by
  4. scraping down
  5. scraping off
  6. scraping someone off the ceiling
  7. scraping the barrel
  8. scraping the bottom of the barrel
  9. scraping through
  10. scraping together
  11. scraping up

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