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Nature's bandage and labor's harshest insult, depending entirely on who's bleeding.
means A protective crust over a healing wound, or a worker who crosses a picket line during a strike.
from From Old Norse skabb, meaning a crusty skin disease; by the 1800s, strikers borrowed it to brand line-crossers as repulsive parasites.
Scab biologyMostly dried fibrin, platelets, and trapped blood cells.
Don't pickPicking invites infection and worsens scarring.
Labor slurAmong unions, fighting words since the 1800s.
Mange linkOriginal meaning was an itchy animal skin disease.