chicken shit
Idioms-
Contemptibly petty or insignificant. For example, He has spent his life making up chicken shit rules that nobody follows anyway . This expression gained currency during World War II, when it was often applied to the enforcement of petty and disagreeable military regulations. [ Vulgar slang ; c. 1930]
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Cowardly, as in You're not too chicken shit to come along, are you? [ Vulgar slang ; mid-1940s]
Example Sentences
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His siblings turned the barn into a henhouse and toolshed, and the negatives were buried under junk and chicken shit.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 14, 2019
"I slipped over on chicken shit, my crutches were in the air and I cracked a rib on a load of aviary wire," he says.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2012
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