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Chevy Chase

noun

  1. ( The Ballad of Chevy Chase ) a 15th-century English ballad describing the battle of Otterburn between the Percys and the Douglases.


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The Griswold family (headed by Chevy Chase) makes the trip to a theme park in this Harold Ramis classic.

"He was so busy helping others," Chevy Chase would say at his funeral.

Chevy Chase would be one of the stars and Harold Ramis would direct; the opportunity was too good to pass up.

What was the hardest part of all this: the near-cancellations, Dan Harmon leaving, the Chevy Chase stuff?

Other attempts with Wilton North and Chevy Chase also bombed.

He was succeeded in his tenure of the castle by the Widdringtons, one of whom is celebrated in the ballad of “Chevy Chase.”

He was not even Witherington, the crippled fighting-man of the Chevy Chase ballad.

The Bradleys no longer own this house nor their ancestral estate which was Chevy Chase, where the club of that name now is.

Nothing in poetry but Chevy Chase had ever moved his heart before.

White could not resist making another quotation, but this time it was from the old English ballad of Chevy Chase.

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