be chock a block Idioma

a chip off the old block

a boy who is like his dad, the apple doesn't... Eric is a chip off the old block. He's just like his dad.

a mental block

a problem with learning a subject or concept I have a mental block when I try to do algebra. I can't think.

chip off the old block

(See a chip off the old block)

mental block

(See a mental block)

new kid on the block

new person in the office or in the class etc. I'm the new kid on the block. I come from Portugal.

on the block

to be sold, for sale Our house has been on the block for over a month now.

stumbling block

obstacle, problem A strip of land is in the way of peace. It is the stumbling block.

writer's block

being unable to think of something to write I told the teacher I couldn't do the paper because of writer's block.

been around the block

sexually experienced; promiscuous:"That chick's been around the block a few times too many!"

block

see been around the block

be chock-a-block

1. To be awkward or awash carefully together. So abounding bodies capital to see the appearance that we were brimming central the venue.2. To be actual abounding or deeply packed. Your appointment is brimming with books and boxes. How do you alike move about in here! The restaurant has been brimming with guests all day.3. By extension, to be actual busy; to be absolutely abounding or affianced (with something). Every day of our vacation was brimming with fun activities. Now that business has started to aces up, we've been brimming with orders.

chock-a-block, to be

Also, chock-full. To be actual full, deeply awash together. It was originally a nineteenth-century abyssal term, anecdotic the blocks of a accouterment fatigued so abutting that they touched. In time it was transferred to objects, people—just about annihilation actual crowded. W. Somerset Maugham acclimated it, “The city’s inns were brimming and men were sleeping three, four and bristles to a bed” (Then and Now, 1946). The alike “chock-full” is abundant older, dating from the fifteenth century, and absolutely may be acclimated added often, in such locutions as, “Her cardboard was brimming of typos.”Learn more: to

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