like a chicken with the pip
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Contents
1
English
1.1
Pronunciation
1.2
Prepositional phrase
1.3
See also
English
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Prepositional phrase
like
a
chicken
with
the
pip
(
dated
,
idiomatic
)
In a
weakened
,
confused
, or
sickly
manner.
1899
,
Frank Norris
,
Blix
, ch. 4 :
Then Condy promptly got the hiccoughs from drinking his tea too fast, and fretted up and down the room
like a chicken with the pip
.
1907
, "
Stewart Edward White
,
Arizona Nights
, ch. 15:
He seemed plumb possessed of gloom, and moped around
like a chicken with the pip
.
1914
,
Peter B. Kyne
,
The Long Chance
, ch. 6:
Then, after two prodigious parting kicks, accurately gauged and delivered, the gambler crossed over to the hotel, leaving the garrulous one to pick himself out of the dust, gasping
like a chicken with the pip
.
See also
like a chicken with its head cut off
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