This is an audience participation diary. Since you can't get your reply to Eric Trump’s tweet into a HuffPost article you can make it here. You can show off how clever you are in your take-down of the vacant eyed dumbbell second son of Donald Trump.
We can safely assume he never chopped wood in his life and perhaps doesn’t understand that gravity dictates that wood chips fall down and not up. I rather doubt if asked to explain the derivation of the actual saying it wouldn’t even occur to him that it referred to wood chips and would come up with some wack-a-toon notion that it had something to do with spilling a bag of potato chips.
This phrase originated in America in the late 1800s and has reference to chopping wood. It implies that a woodcutter should focus on cutting logs and not worry about where the small pieces (chips) fall. Source: theidioms.com
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Thursday, May 14, 2020 · 2:41:15 PM +00:00 · HalBrown
I admit that I looked up the derivation because I also thought about poker chips first. However in gambling the chips don’t fall, you slide them across the gaming table. The applicable phrase would be in craps: let the dice fall where they may.
To do what seems right, just and proper to you without caring much about the consequences
Etymology:
- The expression was much used in the 19th century. It basically referred to woodcutters who were supposed to keep doing their work with hard work and devotion, neglecting and least caring about the small pieces or chips of wood that might fell here and there. Similarly, the expression deals with to concentrate or keep doing the right job, without caring about the results and possible outcome. One must keep doing the good work.