Found this word, Emergent on one of the request we got at work:

SUper-big-server is new server for SBS. how come my account was missed in the jumpstart. please help to create my account. this is kind of emergent. thanks.

Yeah, yeah, i didn’t know the meaning of Emergent then… I even made fun of the guy and said that emergent is a combination of emergency and urgent.. apparently Emergent really do exists..

Definitions of emergent on the Web:

* occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action; “emergent repair of an aorta”
* coming into existence; “an emergent republic”

Oh hell, that’s another vocabulary lesson for me..

have one’s back to the wall to be in a defensive
position. (Informal. See also push
someone to the wall.) He’ll have to give
in. He has his back to the wall. How can
I bargain when I have my back on the wall?

A Chip on one’s shoulder.. nice one.. not just a new word for our vocabular but an idiom.. Here is where I read it from (tonight at least)

I always wonder how people DON’T see Nathan when he comes down after flying. There were some cool moments between Nathan and Claire as they hid out in Mexico for a night while figuring out what to do. Just as I was irked at Claire for her “I’m going to go take a walk” line (What?!?! Stroll down the street in Mexico just because … ?), she came in with a great gesture, selling her necklace for cash. The bonding done between Claire and Nathan is the most poignant of any this episode, maybe this season. Claire’s always had this chip on her shoulder when dealing with Nathan, and we got to see why. Letting Claire be a teenager instead of a crime-fighting know-it-all is a great move sometimes, and the moment she and Nathan shared in the hotel was nice.

Definition?

GoEnglish.com Pocket English Idioms
Today’s Idiom = “A Chip On Your Shoulder”

www.GoEnglish.com

A Chip On Your Shoulder ( angry because of what happened in the past … )
“a chip on your shoulder”

“a chip on your shoulder”

A person who has “a chip on his shoulder” is angry because of some thing that happened in the past. Example: “He lost his game this morning, and now he has a chip on his shoulder.” It is easy for a person to get in a fight when he has a chip on his shoulder, because he is already angry about something else. Example: “Watch out for that guy, he’s got a chip on his shoulder.” To start a fight, men used to put chips of wood on their shoulder and challenge others to “try to knock it off”. Example: “What’s bothering that guy?” Reply: “Nothing. He’s just got a chip on the shoulder.” Example: “Tom had a tough time growing up, so he’s got a bit of a chip on his shoulder.” You can use the definite article (“the”) which sounds more general (“a chip on the shoulder”), but more often people use the personal pronoun (“his”, “her”, “their”) to say that that specific person has “a chip on his (her, their) shoulder.”