Meanings
prepositional phrase
- Engaged in scrounging.
"On the scrounge, are you?" said Gobling. "Shouldn't think you've ever done a day's work in your life."
1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 94
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