when the chips are down
Meanings of "when the chips are down"
When times are tough, when the situation is dire or urgent. It comes from chip used to bet in a card game instead of money. When there are few chips left then they are said to be down. So if you are down on chips, you are in trouble financially in the card game.
"when the chips are ..." in lyrics
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Power of Love
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying
Gabrielle Aplin - The Power of Love
I’ll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I’ll be around
With my undying death-defying love for you
Whitney Houston - I Believe in You and Me
I believe in you and me
I believe that we will be in love eternally
As far as I can see
You will always be, the one, for me
Nothing's gonna stop me now
I am skimming like a skipping stone on a silver lake
I'll take it when the chips are down
But to play the perfect happy clown
I'll protect you from the hooded clows,
Keep the vampires from your door...
When the chips are down I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying
Hadestown (Musical) - Hey, Little Songbird (2010)
They’ll take you down, they’ll pick you clean
If you stick around such a desperate scene
See, people get mean when the chips are down
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Power of Love (Extended Singlette Version)
I'll protect you from the Hooded Claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down, I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying love for you
Oh oh
Love me when the chips are down
Love me when the chips are down
Could you love me when the world is crashing all around?
Ey man, you don't get anything for free in here other than demo tapes by MOK 1
Your mom lives here too but she can't afford the rent
But when the chips are down, she gives head like Zinedine Zidane
Anti-social, uh, we fuck your girl
- 1. MOK is a rapper who signed Sudden but their work wasn't very successful
Chrisette Michele - Love is You
You're the one I cling on to
Love - is you
When the chips are down
Love will stick around
Love is a gamble
That you gotta take
Cause you never win if you never play
You're looking for someone
Hadestown (Musical) - When The Chips Are Down
What you gonna do when the chips are down
Now that the chips are down?
What you gonna do when the chips are down
Now that the chips are down?
Hadestown (Musical) - When the Chips Are Down (2010)
What you gonna do when the chips are down?
Now that the chips are down
What you gonna do when the chips are down?
Now that the chips are down
Hadestown (Musical) - Hey Little Songbird
And they'll take you down, they'll pick you clean
If you stick around such a desperate scene
See, people get mean when the chips are down
Tell me would you ride, ride for me?
Ain't no picking sides, switching sides on me (Switchin' on me)
Oh whoa, when the chips are down (Down)
When the lights turn low (Low)
Time to play my hand
And step up for you
'cause when the chips are down
Is what a man do
Somewhere, someone's calling me
When the chips are down
I stumble like a blind man
Al Green - Could I Be The One?
Let me be with you through all your hard times
I wanna be around when the chips are down
It'll be me and you, against the opposition
Hadestown (Musical) - Gone, I’m Gone (2010)
When the chips are down
Now that the chips are down
What you gonna do when the chips are down?
Now that the chips are down