The phrase "a chap on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in informal contexts to refer to a man or boy in a casual manner, often implying a specific situation or location.
Example: "I saw a chap on the corner of the street selling newspapers."
Alternatives: "a guy at" or "a fellow on".
A while back, one of our players (name not mentionable) mentioned that he had been invited into another game, this one run by a chap on the present Forbes list (name even less mentionable), where the win-loss potentials are, not surprisingly, far greater.
Yet, outside office hours, they crave the reality, as we discover when Tessa goes gooey at the memory of holding hands with a chap on a seafront walk.
Another character meets a chap on a train, and immediately agrees to go into business with him, for no justifiable reason.
Last Friday, in a similar mood, he'd found a chap on the doorstep, thin as a junkie, pretending to be blind.
Why, only last week, a chap on a different, far inferior newspaper wrote, in regards to fashion's fondness for skinny models: "They are not attractive to men or, surely, to women.
He found the guidelines for such programmes inimical to his unrestrained style of comic writing, but was perfectly happy to channel that impulse into radio plays: Norman (2004) for Johnny Vegas, as a chap on the margins of society; and Chloe (2007) for Steadman, as an imprisoned artist.
George Brent's disillusioned Ransome is merely a genial chap on a veranda with a brandy-soda in his hand.
A woman saw a ragged chap on Madison Avenue who shuffled up to a trash basket and retrieved a discarded newspaper.
The New Yorker, November 9, 1957 P. 38 A woman saw a ragged chap on Madison Avenue who shuffled up to a trash basket and retrieved a discarded newspaper.
By J. M. Flagler and M. Cahan The New Yorker, November 9 , 1957P. 38 A woman saw a ragged chap on Madison Avenue who shuffled up to a trash basket and retrieved a discarded newspaper.
Paddy has positioned himself as the fun bookie, and some advertising chap had obviously convinced him that the following would be a hilarious scenario: a chap posts on Facebook asking about special offers, is advised to phone Paddy's "stunning" phone operators – lovely ladies pictured – for details, and then has his call answered by a bespectacled geeky-looking chap.
