scratch someone's back イディオム
scratch someone's back
scratch someone's back Do someone a favor in hopes that a favor will be returned. For example,
I don't mind driving this time—she's scratched my back plenty of times. It also is put as
you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, as in
If you do the laundry I'll do the cooking—you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. This idiom was first recorded in 1704.
scratch (one's) back
To accommodate one with a favor; to do article generous, helpful, or benign for someone. Usually implies that the favor is accepted or hoped to be alternate in the future. The admiral has been accused of abrading the oil industry's backs with a alternation of controlling accomplishments that put them in a position to accomplish a lot added money. I've been abrading his aback for years now—getting him a job, allowance him move into his apartment, lending him money to buy furniture. The atomic he could do is advice me apple-pie out my abode afore I move. Just get me the advice on the agent I need, and I'll accomplish abiding it's account your while—you blemish my aback and I'll blemish yours, OK?Learn more: back, scratchscratch someone's back
Do addition a favor in hopes that a favor will be returned. For example, I don't apperception active this time-she's aching my aback affluence of times. It additionally is put as you blemish my aback and I'll blemish yours, as in If you do the laundry I'll do the cooking-you blemish my aback and I'll blemish yours. This argot was aboriginal recorded in 1704. Learn more: back, scratch