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The word chip appears in a number of special American expressions. Another is chip off the old block. This means that a child is exactly like a parent.
“Chip”还出现在很多美国特殊说法中。另一个说法就是“chip off the old block”，意思是酷似父母的小孩。
This expression goes back at least to the early sixteen hundreds. The British writer of plays, George Colman, wrote these lines in seventeen sixty-two. “You’ll find him his father’s own son, I believe. A chip off the old block, I promise you!”
这个说法至少要追溯到17世纪初。英国剧作家乔治.科尔曼在1762年这样写道：“我相信，你会发现他就是他父亲的亲生儿子。我向你保证，他们就向一个模子里印出来的一样（A chip off the old block）。”
