Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
justify the scratch required
English answer:
justify to yourself (or others) spending that amount of mony on a wine
Added to glossary by
Tony M
Dec 31, 2016 10:11
7 yrs ago
English term
justify the scratch required
English
Art/Literary
Wine / Oenology / Viticulture
If you can somehow justify the scratch required, don't miss it.
source:
http://www.saq.com/page/en/saqcom/red-wine/domaine-de-la-rom...
source:
http://www.saq.com/page/en/saqcom/red-wine/domaine-de-la-rom...
Change log
Jan 14, 2017 17:22: Tony M Created KOG entry
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jsutify to yourself (or others) spending that amount of mony on a wine
'scratch'
here = money — lots of it!
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Note added at 1 heure (2016-12-31 11:15:00 GMT)
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Apologies for my typos above! That should of course read:
"justify to yourself (or others) spending that amount of money on a wine"
here = money — lots of it!
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Note added at 1 heure (2016-12-31 11:15:00 GMT)
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Apologies for my typos above! That should of course read:
"justify to yourself (or others) spending that amount of money on a wine"
Peer comment(s):
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Mark Nathan
: Yes, is one bottle of Romanée-Conti really worth 500 bottles of plonk!
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Thanks, Mark! Quite... the most expensive bottle we had in our cellar was €2,400 (a rather fine Petrus — though not sure if it was truly that fine!)
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philgoddard
: The copy is badly written, and "scratch" is inappropriately slangy.
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Thanks, Phil! Must admit it did somewhat take me aback, but I thought it was just modern American style...
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Charles Davis
: Absolutely; the key, of course, is scratch = money. I tend to suspect that when people have paid a lot of money for something they have to believe it was worth it; the alternative is too depressing.
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Thanks, Charles! Oh absolutely! And I suspect that's maybe why the writer used the word 'scratch', rather than come right out and say 'money' (filthy lucre and all that)
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Yvonne Gallagher
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Thanks, G!
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Yasutomo Kanazawa
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Thanks, Yasutomo-san!
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jccantrell
: Yep, scratch, dough, moolah, dinero, dead presidents, benjamins .... Now where did I put that lottery ticket?
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Thanks, JCC!
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acetran
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Thanks, Ace!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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27 mins
to admit some necessary irregularity (which catches the eye)
flaw, defect, fault
Peer comment(s):
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Tony M
: Wouldn't make any sense in the context in which this is being used here.
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Discussion
cash money!!
I suspect you're just doing it for the scratch
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scratch