china plate
A mate.
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China syndrome
A hypothetical nuclear reactor meltdown scenario
china's final warning
A last and urgent warning before taking action
chinaman on one's back
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Chinese compliment
a compliment that is actually an insult
Chinese Gordon
General Gordon (killed at Khartoum in 1885), who in 1863 was placed in command of the Ever- Victorious Army (#.v.) and in the following year succeeded, after thirty-three engagements, in putting down the Taeping rebellion, which had broken out in 1851. For this service Gordon was rewarded by the Emperor with the yellow jacket and peacock's feather of a mandarin of the first class.
Chinese green
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Chinese overtime
Working long hours without extra pay
Chinese puzzle
A complex problem that is difficult to solve
Chinese Wall
A barrier to communication or interaction
Chinese water torture
A method of torture or persuasion using slow, repetitive actions
ching
Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).
chinging
A stabbing.
chink
Or CHINKERS, money.—Ancient. Derivation obvious.
chink in the armor
A weakness or vulnerability in someone's defenses
chink up
to pay or give money
chinker
Money.
chip
To leave.
chip
A child. A chip of the old block; a child who either in person or sentiments resembles its father or mother.
chip away
Gradually reduce or wear something down
chip in
contribute money or help to a common effort
chip of the old block
A child which physically or morally resembles its father. BROTHER CHIP, one of the same trade or profession. Originally brother carpenter, now general.
chip off the old block
A person who closely resembles a parent in behavior or character
chip on one's shoulder
A grudge or grievance held for a long time
chip shot
An easy task or opportunity
chip up
to cheer up or become more optimistic
Chipping Norton
A number of large stones in a circle, which tradition says are men turned to stone. The highest of them is called the King, who "would have been king of England if he could have caught sight of Long Compton," which may be seen a few steps farther on; five other large stones are called the knights, and the rest common soldiers.
chips
Money.
chips
Money; also a nickname for a carpenter.—Sea.
chips and dip
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
chipzilla
Intel.
chirk up
to become or try to become more cheerful
chirp
To give information, to "peach."
Chirping Cup
A merry-making glass or cup of liquor. Wine that maketh glad the heart of man, or makes him sing for joy. A chirping cup is my matin song, And my vesper bell is my bowl; Ding dong!
chirping merry
Exhilarated with liquor. Chirping glass, a cheerful glass, that makes the company chirp like birds in spring.
chisel
To cheat, to take a slice off anything. Hence the old conundrum: "Why is a carpenter like a swindler?—Because he chisels a deal."
chit
Shit.
chit
A letter; corruption of a Hindoo word.—Anglo-Indian.
chitterlings
The shirt frills once fashionable and worn still by ancient beaux; properly the entrails of a pig, to which they are supposed to bear some resemblance. Belgian SCHYTERLINGH.
chitterlins
The bowels. There is a rumpus among my bowels, i.e. I have the colic. The frill of a shirt.
chitty-faced
Baby-faced; said of one who has a childish look.
chiva
heroin
chivalry
Coition. Probably a corruption from the Lingua Franca. Perhaps from CHEVAULCHER.
chive
Or CHIVEY, a shout, a halloo, or cheer; loud tongued. Probably from CHEVY-CHASE, a boy’s game, in which the word CHEVY is bawled aloud. Dickens uses the word CHIVEY in Bleak House rather freely, but there it is from the other phase of CHEVY-CHASE which follows.
chive-fencer
A street hawker of cutlery.
chivey
I gave him a good chivey; I gave him, a hearty
chivey
To chase round, or hunt about. Apparently from CHEVY-CHASE.—See above.
chiving lay
Cutting the braces of coaches behind, on which the coachman quitting the box, an accomplice robs the boot; also, formerly, cutting the back of the coach to steal the fine large wigs then worn.
choak
Choak away, the churchyard's near; a jocular saying to a person taken with a violent fit of coughing, or who has swallowed any thing, as it is called the wrong way; Choak, chicken, more are hatching: a like consolation.
choak pear
Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was of iron, shaped like a pear; this they forced into the mouths of persons from whom they intended to extort money; and on turning a key, certain interior springs thrust forth a number of points, in all directions, which so enlarged it, that it could not be taken out of the mouth: and the iron, being case-hardened, could not be filed: the only methods of getting rid of it, were either by cutting the
choakee
Or CHOKEY, the black hole.—Military Anglo-Indian. Chokey is also very vulgar slang for prison.
chock-full
Full till the scale comes down with a shock. Originally CHOKE-FULL, and used in reference to theatres and places of amusement.
chocolate
To give chocolate without sugar; to reprove. MILITARY TERM.
chocolate starfish
The anus.
chocolate teapot
Something completely useless
choda
Bastard, son of a bitch.
choice spirit
A thoughtless, laughing, singing, drunken fellow.
choice spirit of the age
Figuratively used for a gallant of the day; one who delights to exaggerate the whims of fashion.
choke off
to stop or suppress something
choke the chicken
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
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