2006-06-15 04:25:00 · 5 answers · asked by Zaxis 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
The expression is "chip ON the shoulder". It refers to an old form of challenge....a person would place a "chip", probably of wood, on his shoulder and challenge someone to knock it off. If the other person accepted the challenge, they would fight. The expression now means someone who seems to be looking for a fight, or at least a disagreement, all the time.
2006-06-15 04:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem to have mixed two expressions "Chip ON the shoulder" and "Chip off the old block".
Chip on the shoulder refers to someone who is angry/disappointed and is looking for a fight.
Chip off the old block refers to (generally) a child who resembles a parent very closely. Like a chip taken off a block of wood.
2006-06-15 04:33:25 · answer #2 · answered by loki_knows 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Chip on the Shoulder - To be edgy, snappish, ready to fight. One would suppose a person with a chip on his shoulder would have all he could do to keep it from falling off. Apparently, however, it was once the fashion among boys for one boy to put a chip of something on his shoulder and dare another boy to knock it off. As a newspaper in New York explained it in 1830: "When two churlish boys were determined to fight, a chip would be placed on the shoulder of one and another demanded to knock it off - at his peril. " This origin is also evident in the St. Louis Daily Pennant (1840): "Jonathan's blood is 'pretty considerable riz' anyhow, and it wouldn't take so much as knocking a chip off a boy's shoulder to make it a darnationed sight riz-er."
2006-06-15 04:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by Special K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
might desire to be the creation of somebody who became completely blasted with liquor and in all likelihood his acquaintances spouse became greater proper than his very own so he made it up just to cheer himself :) This word refers to a element that splendor as all of us be attentive to is in what we see, if we cant see it its all same. So once you turnoff the lights and function intercourse it is not appropriate how proper or trouble-free the guy is as you are able to no longer see the physique yet purely sense it at the same time with your palms. It refers to ladies because of the fact in those days intercourse became seen to be some thing which a guy does with a woman as he had to do all the artwork.
2016-12-08 21:07:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the answer but I know it means what it says they would take a axe to the shoulder blade little bit at a time for punishment.
Goodluck.
2006-06-15 04:28:58 · answer #5 · answered by crocadilen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋