what does carrying a chip on your shoulder mean
Chip on shoulder To have a chip on one's shoulder refers to the act of holding a grudge or grievance that readily provokes disputation.
Wikipedia:You can't squeeze blood from a turnip You can't squeeze blood from a turnip. â€“ Matt (Casey) Jones
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Molly Bawn contains Hungerford's most famous idiom:
Star-crossed The phrase was coined in the prologue of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
Hundreds and thousands Hundreds and thousands used incorrectly instead of hundreds of thousands to mean "an indefinite but emphatically large number".
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