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chip off

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Verb1.chip off - break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped"
chip, break away, break off, come off
flake off, peel, flake, peel off - come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off"
exfoliate - come off in a very thin piece
divide, part, separate - come apart; "The two pieces that we had glued separated"
Translations
? chip off
vt sep paint etc → wegschlagen; piece of china → abstoßen, abschlagen
vi (paint etc) → absplittern


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By dint of much labour he managed to chip off a narrow sliver some twelve inches long by a quarter of an inch thick.
The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Truly, his one son was a chip off the old block, and Peter Winn had no meek notions concerning the intrinsic value of said old block.
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