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lop off

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lop something off (of) something and lop something off
to chop or cut something off something. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) Lop that long branch off the tree before you put the saw away, will you? Please lop off that branch.


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When Spears stunned the stylist by demanding that she lop off her luxurious dark tresses, Tognozzi tried to talk her out of it.
With Sarbanes-Oxley, the cost of a lawyer and CPA, they probably could lop off $3 million to $5 million a year in expenses.
They reasoned that various strains of anaerobic bacteria that can remove chlorine atoms from chemicals might also lop off bromines to detoxify the PBDEs.
 
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