chew the fat 的定义
- Also, chew the rag. Chat in a friendly, leisurely way, as in Let's get together for coffee and chew the fat, or John and Dave spend hours just chewing the rag. Before the 1880s in Britain, chew the fat meant “to grumble or complain,” and chew the rag also has been used in this way. Today both expressions are largely synonyms for a friendly talk or gossip session. Why this idiom uses fat and rag is not known, but some speculate that fat refers to juicy items of gossip and rag to ladies' sewing circles and the cloth they worked on while chatting.
chew the fat 近义词
等同于 shoot the breeze
等同于 chew the cud
chew the fat 的近义词 9 个
等同于 chat
chew the fat 的近义词 9 个
等同于 converse
等同于 debate
更多chew the fat例句
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.
- The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
- Then a fat, untidy old man appeared in the doorway of a cubicle within the shop, and Edwin Clayhanger blushed.
- He wished her mother had not been quite such an appalling person, fat and painted.
- It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.