plural of wood chip

A female prostitute.

Problems are solved more effectively by intelligence than by hard graft.

(mining, archaic) Work done by the piece, as in non-metalliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.

Everyone; the whole world

Expression of amusement over apparently unexpected but predictable result.

(idiomatic, usually preceded by in) Simple, clear, straightforward language; blunt language.

logwood (Haematoxylum campechianum)

(idiomatic) In simple, clear, straightforward language; in blunt language.

For all time.