chew the rag

Example Sentences

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The gossip of scientists who get together and chew the rag is the lifeblood of physics.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'll be depressive soon enough, but while you eat your candy just allow me to chew the rag; there's a kind of substance in it."

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

XIX A pardon if too much I chew the rag, But say, it's getting rubbed in good and deep, And I have reached the limit where I weep As easy as a sentimental jag.

From The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum by Irwin, Wallace

Now succeeded by a club of New Yorkers, who chew the rag and keep awake.

From The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] by Wurdz, Gideon

"Say, do I have to sit here all night while you chew the rag?" grumbled the beaver man.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)