chalk : Idioms & Phrases

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Black chalk

  • a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate.
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By a long chalk

  • by a long way; by many degrees. Slang Lowell.
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Chalk drawing

  • (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon.
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chalk dust

  • noun dust resulting from writing with a piece of chalk
    • chalk dust covered the teacher's hands
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Chalk formation

  • . See Cretaceous formation, under Cretaceous.
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Chalk line

  • noun a chalked string used in the building trades to make a straight line on a vertical surface
    snap line; snapline.
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  • a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work.
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Chalk mixture

  • a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants.
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chalk out

  • verb make a sketch of
    sketch.
    • sketch the building
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Chalk period

  • . (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, under Cretaceous.
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Chalk pit

  • noun a quarry for chalk
    chalkpit.
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  • a pit in which chalk is dug.
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chalk talk

  • noun a talk that uses a blackboard and chalk
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chalk up

  • verb accumulate as a debt
    run up.
    • he chalked up $100 in the course of the evening
  • verb keep score, as in games
    tally.
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Drawing chalk

  • noun colored chalks used by artists
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  • . See Crayon, n., 1.
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French chalk

  • noun a soft white compact talc used to mark cloth or to remove grease stains
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  • steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral.
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Red chalk

  • an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.
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Spanish chalk

  • (Min.), a kind of steatite; so called because obtained from Aragon in Spain.
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tailor's chalk

  • noun chalk used by tailors to make temporary marks on cloth
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To chalk out

  • to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. Colloq. "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out."
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Venetian chalk

  • a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.
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