Meaning of chicken oriental | Babel Free

Definitions

Mental, crazy, insane.

Cockney, slang

Examples

“Gave up and moved back home. Since then house prices have gone chicken oriental so the likelihood of me moving into my own place is very small.”

“Tom shivered. This sounded like a comment of the sort that might first alert a husband to his wife’s rankling insanity. ‘Our new family?’ he echoed. ¶ ‘Yes. Don’t look worried – I haven’t gone chicken oriental. I made a simple, practical decision.[…]’”

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