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词组 chip on your shoulder
释义 chip on your shoulder
noun
a grievance or a sense of inferiority which is often manifested in defiance or ill-humoured behaviour US, 1855
Derives, probably, from juvenile conflict: when two boys were determined to fight, a chip of wood was placed on the shoulder of one, and the other challenged to knock it off.
  • [T]he teenage [Tom] Cox often plays with a jumbo-sized class-chip on his shoulder, desperate to say: “My clubs aren’t as good as your clubs, my clothes don’t have labels on, I drink Happy Shopper ginger beer–but I’ve still beaten the lot of you!” — Guardian, 10 August 2002
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