chopstick land
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[edit]- (slang) China.
- 1870 January 22, The Weekly Arizona Miner, Prescott, Ar., page 3, column 4:
- F. F. Low, our new Minister to Chopstickland (China), has started for his post.
- 1927 August, Henry Purmont Eames, “Fiddles, Flutes, and Drums”, in Child Life, New York, page 470, column 2:
- In "Music in Chopstick Land" I wrote about Chinese music but I forgot to tell you that the Chinese have a very clever way of bowing their fiddles.