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chop off

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chop someone off
Fig. to stop someone in the middle of a sentence or speech. (Abruptly, as if actually chopping or cutting.) I'm not finished. Don't chop me off! The moderator chopped off the speaker.
See also: chop

chop something off (of) something and chop something off

to cut something off something, as with an axe or saw. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) We chopped the dead branches off the tree. You should chop off the other branch.
See also: chop


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Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.
If there had been an executioner behind him with an uplifted axe ready to chop off his head if he touched that hand, Joe couldn't have helped doing it.
Would you chop off your hand if your mother requested it?
 
 
 
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