chicken shit

[chik-uhn-shit]

chick·en·shit

[chik-uhn-shit] Slang: Vulgar.
noun
1.
boring or annoying details or unimportant tasks.
adjective
2.
obsessed with petty details.
3.
menial or petty.
4.
cowardly or fainthearted.

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Origin:
1945–50; Americanism
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Slang Dictionary

chicken shit definition


  1. n.
    virtually nothing. (From chicken feed. Usually objectionable.) : Fifty bucks! That's just chicken shit!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

chicken shit

  1. 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]

  2. Cowardly, as in You're not too chicken shit to come along, are you? [Vulgar slang; mid-1940s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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