chip off old block
旧有的东西,旧有的东西也会变坏
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Definitions
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- : a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
- : a very thin slice or small piece of food, candy, etc.: chocolate chips.
- : a mark or flaw made by the breaking off or gouging out of a small piece: This glass has a chip.
- : any of the small round disks, usually of plastic or ivory, used as tokens for money in certain gambling games, as roulette or poker;counter.
- : Also called microchip .Electronics. a tiny slice of semiconducting material, generally in the shape of a square a few millimeters long, cut from a larger wafer of the material, on which a transistor or an entire integrated circuit is formed.Compare microprocessor.
- : a small cut or uncut piece of a diamond or crystal.
- : anything trivial or worthless.
- : something dried up or without flavor.
- : a piece of dried dung: buffalo chips.
- : wood, straw, etc., in thin strips for weaving into hats, baskets, etc.
- : Golf. chip shot.
- : Tennis. a softly sliced return shot with heavy backspin.
Phrases
- chip and dip
- chip in
- chip off the old block
- chip on one's shoulder
- cash in (one's chips)
- in the money (chips)
- let the chips fall where they may
- when the chips are down
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It suddenly occurred to her that she wanted a rum drink, and plantain chips, and to lose herself on a sweaty, packed dance floor.
This business has become a place where people take their kids after school to get a hot chocolate and a chocolate chip cookie.
Children are exposed to lead by paint chips found in homes built prior to 1978, contaminated soil and old lead pipes and fixtures.
Mazda just announced it might have to cut output by 34,000 units this year due to a lack of chips.
I’ll order the nachos but, like, really soak the chips in the queso.
Like drawing tattoos, sewing earmuffs, or fashioning model airplanes from old chip bags?
Late former governors of NY, TX starred in a 1994 snack chip ad.
Can you chip away at the distrust of the police among black people?
That victory for the tab became a bargaining chip in all future dealings with the superstar.
When he returned to challenge James in 2006, he was a celebrity with a chip on his shoulder.
"Here's a white pitcher, Jess," Violet called, holding up a perfect specimen with a tiny chip in its nose.
In such a sea the boat was tossed as if she were a chip; but the gale gave her speed, and speed gave her quick steering power.
So Roly dove into his pack, which lay unbound on the shore, and presently produced a fish-line wound around a chip.
"Reckon they'll jest chip off all my feeturs 'fore they git done with me," he grinned, feeling of the wounded part.
He was to go to Aberystwith College, and to become a preacher, and wear a black chip straw hat.