Thesaurus / chew the fat
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synonyms for chew the fat
- go on
- chatter
- prate
- cackle
- babble
- jaw
- converse
- burble
- yap
- prattle
- blab
- gab
- shoot the breeze
- chew the rag
- run on
- consider
- bicker
- contest
- deliberate
- question
- wrangle
- oppose
- answer
- contend
- confab
- differ
- bandy
- pettifog
- prove
- confute
- refute
- rehash
- controvert
- agitate
- reason
- hassle
- moot
- disprove
- canvass
- demonstrate
- cogitate
- rebut
- dispute
- cross swords
- lock horns
- altercate
- bump heads
- discept
- hammer away at
- hash over
- have at it
- kick around
- knock around
- pick a bone
- put up argument
- set to
- talk back
- talk game
- thrash out
- toss around
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSGive a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThen a fat, untidy old man appeared in the doorway of a cubicle within the shop, and Edwin Clayhanger blushed.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTHe wished her mother had not been quite such an appalling person, fat and painted.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONIt was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYHe controlled himself betimes, bethinking him that, after all, there might be some reason in what this fat fellow said.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIAnd as the fat taken away from the flesh, so was David chosen from among the children of Israel.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSYou have waxed fat and sleek in your seneschalship; this easy life in Dauphiny appears to have been well suited to your health.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIYou never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYTo this the fat boy, considerably terrified, briefly responded, “Missis.”
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENSWORDS RELATED TO CHEW THE FAT
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