I hope to leave work in a month's time and get myself up to scratch with my reading.

He scratched a line on the ground with a bit of stick.

I felt like scratching with all my fingers at once.

Obviously you are not up to scratch with world affairs.

I scratched at the ground with my hands, and somehow managed to free myself.

I scratched my chin with it and tried to picture her face.

Dean scratched the back of his neck with the other.

It looked like the picture a child might scratch with a pin.

One of them managed to scratch me with his knife.

"We don't even begin to scratch the surface with enforcement."