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the chop
1. Dismissal from one's job. You're going to get the chop if you keep coming into work late.
2. Elimination or discontinuation, as of a service or program. Our charity program will most certainly be for the chop if the hospital loses any more funding.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
chop (someone or something) (up) (into something)
to cut something up into something smaller, perhaps with an axe or a cleaver. The butcher chopped up the beef loin into small fillets. I chopped up the onion into little pieces.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
chop
n. a rude remark; a cutting remark. That was a rotten chop! Take it back!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- Baltimore Chop
- be chopped liver
- be for the chop
- be given the chop
- be not chopped liver
- chop
- chop and change
- chop back
- chop chop
- chop down
- chop logic
- chop off
- chop out
- chop shop
- chop up
- chopped liver
- chop-shop
- for the chop
- get the axe
- get the chop
- get/be given the chop
- give (one) the chop
- give (something) the chop
- not much chop
- on the chopping block
- pork chop
- the chop
- What am I, chopped liver?