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What does Thurber mean by Are you scraping around the bottom of the pickle barrel?
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The phrase "scraping around the bottom of the pickle barrel" means going to extra effort to find something of the slightest value where there might not be anything and being unable to find anything. This question for example. One might say: With all the important aspects of the story "The Catbird Seat" being used up in about 40 previous questions, they must have really been scraping the bottom of the pickle barrel to find this one."
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