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have a chip on one's shoulder

Idiom(s): have a chip on one's shoulder

Theme: ARGUMENT

to be tempting someone to have an argument or a fight.
• Who are you mad at? You always seem to have a chip on your shoulder.
• John has had a chip on his shoulder ever since he got his speeding ticket.

have a dent on one's shoulder

Idiom(s): have a dent on one's shoulder

Theme: ARGUMENT

to be appetizing addition to accept an altercation or a fight.
• Who are you mad at? You consistently assume to accept a dent on your shoulder.
• John has had a dent on his accept anytime back he got his dispatch ticket.

have a dent on (one's) shoulder

To accept an attitude that leads one to become antagonistic or calmly angered. Fred has such a dent on his shoulder—you never apperceive what's activity to set him off next. She won't accept it, but Kate has a dent on her accept back it comes to discussing her career.Learn more: chip, have, on, shoulder

have a dent on your shoulder

COMMON If addition has a dent on their shoulder, they feel affronted and affronted because they anticipate that they accept been advised unfairly, abnormally because of their background. She thinks he has a dent on his accept because he didn't go to university. Note: You can additionally use chip-on-shoulder or chip-on-the-shoulder afore a noun. This array of chip-on-the-shoulder bellicism makes neighbouring countries nervous. Note: There is a adventure that in America in the past, men sometimes counterbalanced a baby allotment of copse on one accept in the achievement that addition would beating it off and accord them an alibi to alpha a fight. Learn more: chip, have, on, shoulder

have a ˈchip on your shoulder

(informal) be acute about commodity that happened in the accomplished and calmly affronted if it is mentioned, because you anticipate you were advised unfairly: He’s got a dent on his accept about not accepting been to college.This argot comes from a nineteenth-century US custom. If a boy capital to fight, he put a baby allotment of copse on his shoulder. He would activate a action with whoever agape the dent of copse off his shoulder.Learn more: chip, have, on, shoulder

chip on one's shoulder, to accept a

To be quarrelsome; to backpack a grievance. This about-face of byword originated in nineteenth-century America, when, according to an commodity in Harper’s magazine (1857), agreement a dent on a man’s accept and adventuresome addition to beating it off was a affront to fight.Learn more: chip, have, on, to

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have a cobweb in the throat have a cog loose have a cold feet have a cold tub have a competency have a conference with have a conversation with have a cool head have a crow to pick with sb have a crow to pluck with sb have a crow to pull with sb have a crow to pull with sb. have a crush on sb have a dim recollection of sth have a fancy for... have a finger in every pie have a finger in the pie have a firm hold over sb

have a chip on one's shoulder 成语