Chop Phrases

Phrases

• A piece of meat
• A slice of the cake
• Any way you slice it
• At one fell swoop
• Axe to grind
• Be careful how you use it! (Hai Karate Aftershave advertising slogan)
• Beat your meat
• Bust your chops
• Buzzard meat
• Carry on like a pork chop
• Chop and change
• Chop chop
• Chop shop
• Chopped liver
• Chopper Harris (Nickname of footballer Ron Harris)
• Clean cut boy
• Cold meat
• Cut a cheque
• Cut a dash
• Cut a deal
• Cut a hog
• Cut a long story short
• Cut a rug
• Cut a wide swathe (make a pompous display)
• Cut above the rest
• Cut and dried
• Cut and paste
• Cut and run
• Cut and shut
• Cut and thrust
• Cut bait
• Cut corners
• Cut costs
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut it fine
• Cut it out
• Cut loose
• Cut no ice
• Cut off at the knees
• Cut off without a penny
• Cut out for
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut some slack
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cackle
• Cut the cheese
• Cut the cord
• Cut the crap
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Cut the mustard
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Cut throat competition
• Cut through the red tape
• Cut to the chase
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Cut up rough
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Cut your losses
• Cut your own throat
• Cut your teeth
• Dead meat
• Director's cut
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Easy meat
• Final cut
• First cut
• Fish or cut bait
• Fresh to the last slice (Sunblest Bread advertising slogan)
• Get the chop
• Half cut
• Have your work cut out for you
• I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (Bob Dylan song)
• I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles song)
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Spike Jones song)
• I came, I saw, I conquered
• If I Fell (The Beatles song)
• It fell off the back of a lorry
• It is meat and drink to me
• It's all meat, a real treat
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lamb chop
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Little strokes fell great oaks
• Make the cut
• Measure twice, cut once
• Meat and drink
• Meat and potatoes
• Meat and two veg
• Meat head
• Meat is murder
• Meat market
• Meat packer
• Meat wagon
• Miss the cut
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Mystery meat
• Not cut out for it
• On the chopping block
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Pork Chop (Nickname of Floyd Womack)
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Prime cut
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Slice of life
• Slice of the action
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• The Axe effect (Axe deodorant advertising slogan)
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• The bottom fell out of the market
• The cut of your jib
• The unkindest cut of all
• To cut a long story short
• Watch my chops
• We used to have one of those, but the wheels fell off
• What am I chopped liver?
• What the butler saw
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife