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rake
(redirected from rake over the coals)

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rake
a grooming instrument, used to comb through thick mats in the haircoat of dogs.


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He will meet Hampden chiefs next week to thrash out his fate and rake over the coals over a 20-month tenure that has been marred by controversies such as Kris Boyd's refusal to play for him and the Boozegate scandal.
An unwritten "pact of forgetting", in which both sides agreed not to rake over the coals of the war, underpinned Spain's successful and rapid transition to democracy after Franco's death in 1975.
Forde is loathe to rake over the coals and the ashes of last year's controversy when he mistakenly stood on Offaly's Shane Sullivan during Wexford's Leinster semi-final defeat and received a three month ban.
 
 
 
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