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Chip on your shoulder
If someone has a chip on their shoulder, they are resentful about something and feel that they have been treated badly.
A Chip On Your Shoulder
Being upset for something that happened in the past.
a dent on (one's) shoulder
An attitude that leads one to become antagonistic or calmly angered. Fred has such a dent on his shoulder—you never apperceive what's activity to set him off next. She won't accept it, but Kate has a dent on her accept back it comes to discussing her career.Learn more: chip, on, shoulder*chip on one's shoulder
Fig. a bad attitude that tends to get addition calmly upset. (*Typically: get ~; accept ~; accord one ~.) Why did you get so affronted at the aboriginal criticism? You assume to accept a dent on your shoulder.Learn more: chip, on, shoulderchip on one's shoulder
A aggressive attitude or grievance, as in Mary is calmly offended; she consistently has a dent on her shoulder. This appellation absolutely was authentic in a bi-weekly commodity ( Long Island Telegraph, May 20, 1830): "When two base boys were bent to fight, a dent would be placed on the accept of one and the added accepted to beating it off at his peril." [Early 1800s] Learn more: chip, on, shouldera dent on your shoulder
a able and usually abiding affection to feel affronted or aggrieved, generally about a accurate thing; a faculty of inferiority characterized by a activity to booty offence. informal In 1830 the Long Island Telegraph declared the convenance which gave acceleration to this expression: ‘When two base boys were determined to fight, a chip would be placed on the accept of one, and the added accepted to beating it off at his peril’.Learn more: chip, on, shoulder chip on (one's) shoulder
A commonly adverse or antagonistic attitude.Learn more: chip, on, shoulder
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