ESL Vocabulary and Idioms

Re: idiom: Let the chips fall where they may

Marius Hancu — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:57:13 GMT

Other idiom sites, perhaps not so good in terms of searching, but ...

http://www.english-idioms.net/cgi-bin/main.cgi
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=I
http://www.idiomconnection.com/

Re: idiom: Let the chips fall where they may

JCDenton — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:42:44 GMT

Marius Hancu
Use this site for idioms before posting.
Search inside for

box (not the Search box at the top)

http://www.answers.com/library/Idioms

Search for

chips

Threre's a good explanation there.

Thanks Marius, that page gave me exactly what I wanted. I didn't know about www.answers.com page. I tried to find there some other idioms and the description of them seems to me much better compare to thefreedictionary.com page. Thanks for tip!

regards

Re: idiom: Let the chips fall where they may

Marius Hancu — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:52:38 GMT

Use this site for idioms before posting.

Search inside for

box (not the Search box at the top)

http://www.answers.com/library/Idioms

Search for

chips

Threre's a good explanation there.

Re: idiom: Let the chips fall where they may

Doll — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:33:57 GMT

Hmm, I don't have an example of contextual use ( I mean where it can be used) but it may mean I will explain everything, there will not be anything left unknown.

idiom: Let the chips fall where they may

JCDenton — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:21:06 GMT

Hi my englishforums friends,

I just finished translation of one episode of my favourite TV Show to cut my teeth in english and I came across there to very cool idiom "let the chips fall where they may."... I heard that in this sentense:

I'm gonna tell it to the private investigator and let the chips fall where they may.

This said an soldier, who decided to the tell the truth, about how his friend really died. I have paraphrased this sentense as

I'm gonna tell it to the private investigator, I don't care.

Anyway, I'm just curious, I what situations is this idiom being used? Can you describe the situations where is better to use this mentioned idiom and where, vice versa, something easier...like I don't care or and see what happends..I'm sure that there exists a lot of substitutions for this idiom..

Many thanks in advance

with regards

JCD