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"I got one of them things at home; use it as a backscratcher.
When this area is itchy, a backscratcher can be used to ease the discomfort.
The party favor will be a complimentary backscratcher.
As well buy a packet of itching powder and a backscratcher, if that's the kind of satisfaction you want.
The Tropical Itch (a popular drink that substitutes a bamboo backscratcher for a swizzle stick)
The latter theory is that ruyi originated as a backscratcher in early China, and was amalgamated with the Buddhist symbol of authority.
During their time in the department store, Chloe wins the fourth place prize (which is only a backscratcher), while the artifact is stolen by the Cornstalker.
Live in Japan 1972 - album by Cliff Richard, CD - EMI (in 2009) features M&F track "Backscratcher".
A backscratcher (occasionally known as a scratch-back) is a tool used, as the name would suggest, for relieving itches for areas that cannot easily be reached just by one's own hands, typically the back.
Erik Zürcher (1997:407) suggests that association between ruyi and the legendary ruyibao "wish-fulfilling gem" explains the dichotomy between it being both a mundane backscratcher and a Buddhist symbol.
Backscratcher Jam at Red Lion - Stand by Me feat Martin Rivas, Katy Pfaffl, Alexa Wilkinson, Chrissi Poland, P..
Also in the Historic Section are several small crawling areas, including Lovers' Lane and The Backscratcher, which were explored by Reams and his visitors but not excavated by the Smiths' team.
Later, at The Nag's Head, Sid tells Trigger (who has been creating a portable backscratcher made out of chopsticks) that he got some suggestions from Mike on how to make the pub look a lot better.
He promised not to operate under a good ol' boy system of favors gained and owed, and white voters and black voters liked his plain-spokenness and the fact that he was neither backslapper nor backscratcher.
Though a backscratcher could feasibly be fashioned from most materials, most modern backscratchers are made of plastic, though examples can be found made of wood, whalebone, tortoiseshell, horn, cane, bamboo or occasionally ivory.
An enormous brass seashell, a porcelain bowl, a frame, a mug, a ball of yarn, a backscratcher, a Beanie Baby, a cookie tin, a Life magazine, roller skates, a framed drawing of Elvis Presley . . . .
If first-generation Americans, like his author, have to make up China out of silences and ghost stories, imagine what little is left for Wittman to work with - "backscratcher swizzle sticks, pointed chopsticks for the hair, Jade East aftershave in a Buddha-shaped bottle."