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
I ain't gonna chew the rag with you.
From Man Size by William MacLeod Raine
"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 Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
Don't let 'em out, though, to chew the rag with people on the platform.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
