C
Idioms beginning with "C"
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[cheesebox] {n.}, {slang}
A small, suburban house built by a land developer available at low cost and resembling the other houses around it.
They moved to a suburb, but their house is just a cheesebox.
[cheesecake] {n.}, {slang}, {informal}
A showing of the legs of an attractive woman or a display of her breasts as in certain magazines known as cheesecake magazines.
Photographer to model: "Give us some cheesecake in that pose!"
[cherry farm] {n.}, {slang}
A correctional institution of minimal security where the inmates, mostly first offenders, work as farmhands.
Joe got a light sentence and was sent to a cherry farm for six months.
[chew out] {v.}, {slang}
To scold roughly.
The boy's father chewed him out for staying up late.
The coach chews out lazy players.
Syn.:
[BAWL OUT],
[CALL ON THE CARPET],
[HAUL OVER THE COALS].
[chew the fat] or [chew the rag] {v. phr.}, {slang}
To talk together in an idle, friendly fashion; chat.
We used to meet after work, and chew the fat over coffee and doughnuts.
* /The old man would chew the rag for hours with anyone who would join […]
[chew the scenery] {v. phr.}, {slang}
To act overemotionally in a situation where it is inappropriate; to engage in histrionics.
I don't know if Joe was sincere about our house, but he sure chewed up the scenery!
[chicken]
See:
[COUNT ONE'S CHICKENS BEFORE THEY ARE HATCHED],
[GO TO BED WITH THE CHICKENS],
[SPRING CHICKEN].