get given the chop

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

get/be given the ˈchop idiom
(BrE, informal)
1. (of a person)to be dismissed from a job
•The whole department has been given the chop.
2. (of a plan, project, etc.)to be stopped or ended
•Three more schemes have got the chop.
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