| Idiom | Meaning | Example |
| chow |
food, something to eat
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I'm starved. Let's get some chow.
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| chow down |
eat, have a meal
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I'm hungry. Let's chow down before we go to the movie.
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| Christmas graduate |
a student who leaves college at Christmas
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Among the Christmas graduates last year was Gerard Kutz.
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| chromedome |
bald person, silkhead
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Chromedomes can tell you the advantages of being bald.
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| chuck it |
put it in the garbage, junk it
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We used to say chuck it, but now we say recycle it.
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| chunk of change |
(Seea chunk of change)
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| ciao |
goodbye, see you later
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Ciao, Tony. See you in Rome.
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| circles around you |
much better than you, no contest
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Why do you play cards with her? She can play circles around you.
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| circular file |
garbage can or wastebasket, file 13
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A lot of memos go in the circular file. They're garbage.
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| claim to fame |
what you have done to cause you to be famous
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Besides passing math, what's your claim to fame?
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