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Fred is a harum-scarum kind of player, someone who, to the untrained observer, tends to dash about with no obvious purpose.

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This was the sort of harum-scarum and feisty affair that would have had Villa park heaving if fans had been present.

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There’s going to be some harum-scarum riding out there, one imagines.

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Until Mané’s beautiful, caressed finish, it was a harum-scarum first half that provided painful viewing for Klopp, powerless as his players huffed and puffed, their overcooked and wonky passes bobbling out of touch.

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Of Custer, killed two years later at the Little Bighorn, Grinnell would write that he “knew nothing about Indians and was anyhow a harum-scarum fellow.”

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