chip on one's shoulder
NOUN
belligerent attitude
Synonyms
WEAK
Example Sentences
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One must first not come with a chip on one's shoulder, and should identify with those one leads - in spetza Dr. Funeriu should have equivalenced his foreign degrees to local ones, as we others dutifully did.
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