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chop and change en · VERB
Meanings
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To change or exchange repeatedly.
She pauses. “We were all very young. It was all chop and change. Quite a lot of things were experimental, I suppose. How to live a life! I don’t know whether I’ve got it now, but never mind – I had it!”
2021 March 27, Simon Hattenstone, quoting Charlotte Rampling, “Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:[...] and a good many people at B.T.C. headquarters and at Euston are still smarting from the Select Committee strictures on the L.M.R. Western Lines electrification estimates, whilst the nation at large is suffering from the effects of chopping and changing the electrification schemes.
1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Money for (road) jam”, in Modern Railways, page 153:
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To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change.
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Deriveds
choppy-changey