Of course, business is all about mutual backscratching, nothing wrong with that, but if I am right, I want to be a part of that network. |
I hope, however, that they are equally keen on maintaining the age-old tradition of literary backscratching. |
They're not only using these books to fill space and time that might be used to better purpose, but they're also engaging in corporate backscratching. |
There are no votes to lose in England, plenty to garner in Scotland and the SNP wouldn't want to be accused of backscratching the Tories by abstaining. |
The fount of social problems, he argues, is that human morality grew out of the natural principles of tit-for-tat and mutual backscratching. |
And mutual backscratching ensures the press don't go short of co-operation in stories that are purely rugbyrelated. |