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chopstick land

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chopstick land

  1. (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.
    • 2011 November 25, Ras Mikaere Enoch Mc Carty, “Key's Crying Baby an omen for NZ”, in nz.general[1] (Usenet):
      Chiang Kai Sheck & The Kuomintang Would Point
      Otherwise To Existing 60 Million Slaughtered,
      Let Alone The Abortion Habits Of Chopstick Land.