Synonyms for UP TO THE SCRATCH
up to the scratch

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1. up to the scratch

   Synonyms:
   [colloquial.] courageous, brave, bold, intrepid, daring, dauntless, resolute, ready to fight (as when boxers are brought up to the line or scratch that separates them)

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1. Dwayne Johnson:

   Listen, you've got one shot here, you've got an opportunity -- you've gotta scratch, claw, fight, bite, kick through everything you can to make this happen, it's a back to the wall philosophy and when your back is to the wall every moment in life you have one place to go and that's forward.

2. Edward Hoagland:

   Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

3. Alex Wurz:

   If it's from scratch and they don't have any roads down, they would need to be very advanced with not only their detailed planning but also tendering to find the correct contractors to build the place, in a crash program for the civil engineering you could maybe manage in six to nine months but that's pretty magic.

4. Will Ferrell:

   Ruth, Musial, Mantle, Will Ferrell, who would have thought that one day those names would be synonymous? Show of hands -- scratch that, never mind.

5. Kamala Harris:

   In many ways, we're starting from scratch on something that's been raging for almost an entire year.