Chuck
Chuck verb - To get rid of as useless or unwanted.
Usage example: after the power outage we reluctantly chucked everything that had been sitting in the fridge
Take on
Take on verb - To enter into contest or conflict with.
Both terms in one sentence
- Chuck Jones himself inverts this, describing his own take on Tom and Jerry as "the Road Runner and Coyote in cat-and-mouse drag."
- The Chuck Jones cartoon "I Was a Teenaged Thumb", a comical take on Tom Thumb, has the mother knitting microscopic booties.
Source: Knitting Pregnancy Announcement - Just as the final note of the concert fades out and the bomb is set to explode comes the strains of A-Ha's "Take on Me," gaining Chuck and Sarah just enough time to deal with Quinn and stop the bomb. Epic.
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