C
Idioms beginning with "C"
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[child's play] {adj.}
Easy; requiring no effort.
Mary's work as a volunteer social worker is so agreeable to her that she thinks of it as child's play.
[chime in] {v.}
1. {informal}
To join in.
The whole group chimed in on the chorus.
When the argument got hot, John chimed in.
2. To agree; go well together. — Usually used with "with".
* /Dick was happy, and the holiday music chimed in with […]
[chin]
See:
[KEEP ONE'S CHIN UP],
[STICK ONE'S NECK OUT] or [STICK ONE'S CHIN OUT],
[TAKE IT ON THE CHIN],
[UP TO THE CHIN IN].
[China syndrome] {n.}, {informal}
From the title of the movie with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon. The possibility that an industrial nuclear reactor might explode, literally affecting the other side of the planet (as if by eating a hole through the earth […]
[chip]
See:
[CASH IN ONE'S CHIPS] at [CASH-IN],
[IN THE CHIPS],
[LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY],
[FISH-AND-CHIPS],
[WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN].
[chip in] or [kick in] {v.}, {informal}
To give together with others, contribute.
The pupils chipped in a dime apiece for the teacher's Christmas present.
All the neighbors kicked in to help after the fire.
* /Lee chipped in ten points in the […]
[chip off the old block] {n. phr.}
A person whose character traits closely resemble those of his parents.
I hear that Tom plays the violin in the orchestra his father conducts; he sure is a chip off the old block.
[chip on one's shoulder] {n. phr.}, {informal}
A quarrelsome nature; readiness to be angered.
He went through life with a chip on his shoulder.
Jim often gets into fights because he goes around with a chip on his shoulder.