英和和英

動詞

claw back (三人称単数 現在形 claws back, 現在分詞 clawing back, 過去形および過去分詞形 clawed back)

1. (transitive) To recover or retake, with great effort, something that was lost, often by a government or official agency.

   I was initially refused a refund, but eventually managed to claw back part of the money.

   • 2019 June 10, Heather Stewart, “Gove reboots Tory leadership bid with attack on Johnson”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Michael Gove has tried to claw his way back into the race to be Britain’s next prime minister with a pledge to govern for “overlooked families and undervalued communities” – and a series of personal attacks on frontrunner Boris Johnson.