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piece of one

n. 1 (context idiomatic informal English) A chance to find out something interesting about someone. 2 (context idiomatic informal English) A chance to fight with someone.

Usage examples of "piece of one".

Across the great chamber a piece of one of the columns crashed to the floor tiles.

It happened after some time, making a pretty large fire for cooking my meat, when I went to put it out, after I had done with it, I found a broken piece of one of my earthen-ware vessels in the fire, burnt as hard as a stone, and red as a tile.

Many excavators demanded no particular skill from the men who performed this heavy task, but our men were taught to watch for'anything that might be an artifact or a piece of one.

He found a rotting piece of one of the pad-growths marooned on shore and dragged it upslope.

He broke off a piece of one for himself and nibbled it, but then handed the rest over to Adrian.

The board was a piece of one-by-eight about a foot long that Brent and Trent had made.

The clear Jewels acted as beacons for those who rode the Windsa kind of welcoming candle in the windowand every landing web had a piece of one.

Something was there, shapeless but alarmingly solid, as if a piece of one of the dark walls had stepped forward to challenge them.