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chump
1. derogatory term for a fool, a disliked person
2. the head
3. displeasing, stupid
Off your chump
(UK) If someone is off their chump, they are crazy or irrational.
chump change
chump change A trivial sum of money, a trivial matter. For example,
Dave was sick of working for chump change; he wanted a decent salary, or
Don't put that on the agenda; it's chump change. This expression uses
chump in the sense of “a fool or sucker who should be ignored.” [Slang; 1960s] Also see
chicken feed.
go off (one's) chump
To become crazy or mentally unsound. Usually acclimated hyperbolically. I anticipate Jane's grandmother has gone off her chump lately. I'm activity to go off my chump if I accept to apprehend that accursed song already more! You appetite to abdicate your job so you can advertise bees for a living? Accept you gone off your chump?Learn more: chump, go, offgo off one's chump/head/rocker, to
To go crazy; to become insane. The oldest of these three expressions is “off his head,” which was accepted although slangy by the time Thomas Hood wrote The Turtles (1844), “He was ‘off his head.’” The chat chump became British argot for “head” in the backward nineteenth century; subsequently, “off his chump” was acclimated several times by Shaw, in Pygmalion and Heartbreak House. Off one’s rocker comes from the aforementioned period, but its agent is added puzzling. One biographer suggests it may alongside allude to the elderly, associated with both agitation chairs and beneath brainy capacity. Yet addition alternative is to go off one’s trolley, which alludes to a architect accepting off a streetcar to reposition the trolley caster on the aerial wire that agitated electric accepted to the car’s motor. To be broken from this ability antecedent came to beggarly acceptable crazy, a acceptance dating from the backward 1890s. With the annihilation of streetcars in abounding American cities, this announcement is heard beneath generally today.Learn more: chump, go, head, off, to
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