be given the chop

1. To lose one's job. You'll be given the chop if you keep coming into work late. Hundreds of people will be given the chop if this factory shuts down. After I spoke out about the CEO's involvement in the scandal, I knew I'd be given the chop.

2. To be eliminated or discontinued, as of a service or program. Your know our charity program will be the first to be given the chop if the hospital loses any more funding. Because our research project has stalled over the past year, I know it'll probably be given the chop. If we only have three kids who want to play volleyball this year, seems to me that the team will be given the chop.

get/be given the ˈchop

(British English, informal)
1 (of a person) be dismissed from a job: The whole department has been given the chop.
2 (of a plan, project, etc.) be stopped or ended: Three more schemes have got the chop.

See above note at be for the chop.