"Mother said with humor quaint, 'Careful, Willie, don't scratch the paint!'"
But the hugely controversial reorganisation in North Wales didn't even scratch the surface of these changes for their area.
But, Shannon insisted during that hike, just documenting the malaise in an eight-hundred-word editorial piece couldn't even scratch the surface.
So if watching your fantasies play out on TV doesn't quite scratch that itch, you can enact them yourself down at the range -- or get a concealed carry permit, and convince yourself that the only reason you're not Jack Bauer is that the right opportunity hasn't yet presented itself.
There wasn't a single scratch or ding, and the touchscreen was just as responsive as ever.
If the Cumbrian rock isn't up to scratch the government will have to look elsewhere.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much where the similarities end, as this device's software really wasn't up to scratch.
Roosevelt is stark and elemental but also very lyrical in the careful dialogue it arranges between trees, stone, sky and water (and so well conceived and executed that Superstorm Sandy didn't leave a scratch).
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It's a bit difficult to master, but we find it's more efficient if you put a little bit of your fingernail into it -- not too much, of course, you don't want to scratch your precious reader.
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"The Fed can't wink, scratch its nose, wiggle its ears or do anything that would signal they are about to change policy from what they are doing now, " says Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass.
Despite some aspects of our performance that weren't quite up to scratch, we have taken the positives in overcoming a determined, physical and confrontational side.
Meanwhile, the day-to-day difficulties of soothing skeptical customers and creating a space company from scratch didn't abate.
Yes, the Internet represents and presents new challenges, but to resolve them we don't need to start from scratch.
Although instant grits and instant polenta are available, making them from scratch isn't difficult and the flavor is definitely richer.
If we don't bring schools up to scratch now, we will be condemning pupils to poor and unsuitable conditions and be forced to spend millions more on patching up classrooms as they crumble.
The alternative exams' makers also said they will work with states to find ways to combine scores from the GED with their new exams so students who have passed some sections of the current GED won't be forced to start from scratch.
In dealing with this situation, we don't have the luxury of starting from scratch.
She came up with an article about an antibiotic that worked against cat scratch fever but wasn't toxic.
Countries such as Egypt and Tunisia don't have to build a capitalist system from scratch.
What I said was that if I were starting from scratch, if we didn't have a system in which employers had typically provided health care, I would probably go with a single-payer system.
More scratch comes from sales of DVDs and T shirts, as well as downloads from UFC's library of past bouts.
And don't worry if your theatre trivia is not up to scratch, each item is clearly labelled with details of the stage it set.
During on-and-off negotiations, the NHL scrapped its preseason, all games through 2012 and threatened to scratch the entire season if a deal couldn't be reached.
Since health care represents one-sixth of our economy, I believe it makes more sense to build on what works and fix what doesn't, rather than try to build an entirely new system from scratch.
One of arguments against independence has always been that an independent Scotland would have to start from scratch and apply to join the EU. But won't Alex Salmond now be able to argue that David Cameron wants to pull out anyway?
"Cabaret" hasn't been shown in a decade because one of the film reels had a vertical scratch.
The plant was built from scratch, using Japanese factories as a benchmark, so there weren't a lot of old habits to break.
If you just scratch the surface of the city that might be all you see, but don't forget Los Angeles is home to an enormously creative population.
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