Editor's Corner: Busting One's Chops
By A Mystery Man Writer
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I think when most of us hear the word chop, we think of karate chopping or maybe pork chops. Today, I thought we’d look at other “chop” uses in our language. First, from the Grammarist, the two idioms: bust one’s chops and lick one’s chops. The idiom to bust one’s chops has two meanings. First,…
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