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get the chop

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get the chop

  also be given the chop

1. (British informal) if a person gets the chop, they lose their job Anyone who argued with the foreman was liable to be given the chop.

2. (British informal) if a plan or a service gets the chop, it is stopped Our local bus service got the chop, so I have to walk to work or use the car.

See also: chop, get