get the chop (informal)
1. To be dismissed from one's job, etc
2. To be killed
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Main Entry: ↑chop
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get the chop
Brit informal : to lose your job
The employees with less experience got the chop. [=were fired; got the ax]
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Main Entry: ↑chop
Useful english dictionary. 2012.