Meanings
verbchew the rag (third-person singular simple present chews the rag, present participle chewing the rag, simple past and past participle chewed the rag)
present singular third person chews the rag · participle present chewing the rag · participle past chewed the rag · past chewed the rag
- Synonym of chew the fat.
I didn't have anything special to do, so I went down to the can and chewed the rag with him while he was shaving.
1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 35Synonyms: chew the fat
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verbSynonym of chew the fat.
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