Gather at the Chop House for rib-eye, rack of lamb, or wild Atlantic salmon.
With budgets being culled across the board, marketing is often the first for the chop.
Illegal logging in the Mau is the cause, and now 15% of it is for the chop.
Just how many freelancers get the chop is a question whose implications go beyond those immediately affected, however.
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The current transport minister, Gavin Strang, is widely predicted to be for the chop at the next reshuffle.
The period of the chop is shorter, since waves have less room to build than they do at sea.
But it is the most plausible ones which are currently facing the chop.
It seems that, until the weekend before the review was published, the 130 Tornados were for the chop, not the Harriers.
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Under the plans, MPs would "seldom, if ever" face the chop, the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee predicted in its latest report.
Offering a few tips for the chop isn't too difficult this year.
Long time critics said it proved that the Corporation is badly run and that its chairman Lord Patten should now face the chop.
They argued strongly for the Harrier to get the chop instead, and succeeded creating the carrier gap, since no replacement could be ready quickly.
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Amazing to think that I lay awake worrying about him, when I should have known in my silly heart that I was for the chop.
And this bill, like previous ones, heavily favours roads and highways over mass transit (dedicated funds for bike and walking paths also faced the chop).
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Hairdressers have been getting in on the act too by letting customers download shots of possible hairdos to show their friends before going for the chop.
"The starter's pistol fires, and then you just hear the chop-chop-chop of people rowing as fast as they can to get to the good spots, " Yera says.
The independent review, chaired by Elan Closs Stephens, recommended that the existing arts council and culture board should be retained - rather than one of them getting the chop.
Of course, the way that politicians and bureaucrats manage budget cuts is to make sure that one big thing that most think is a good idea gets the chop.
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But if it became clear that Mr Duncan Smith was for the chop, Messrs Howard and Letwin could well be the nearest the party can get in present circumstances to a dream ticket.
In May, a proposed merger between Sega and Bandai, two makers of computer games, was abandoned at the eleventh hour because of opposition from middle managers at Bandai, who thought that they would get the chop.
There is sure to be speculation as to who will now be for the chop, but Ferguson has been firm in his support for Juan Sebastian Veron and Laurent Blanc, who have received most criticism this season.
Make your way through the warren of corridors to the Chop Room, where you can sit by a fireplace, watched over by a portrait of Samuel Johnson, trying not to be put off by the rather bland beer.
Italy, which has net foreign debt of just 21% of GDP, would probably escape the chop: even with its heavy debts and chronic lack of competitiveness, Mrs Merkel would reckon that the euro zone could not function politically without it.
His Essex lamb "bun, " with sweetbreads and salsa verde, appeared to be a slightly larger version of the truffle, save for the extended bone of the lamb chop protruding at the top.
Across the heavily fortified American bases in Iraq, men and women like Salim Khan cook the food, clean the dishes, chop the vegetables, take out the garbage and clean the latrines.
In addition, he often used the hand chop, palm-down, and the smooth broad gestures that signal certainty and authority.
That's easy: the famed mutton chop, on the menu from the beginning and perfected year after year.
Peel and thinly slice the garlic and ginger, and chop the scallions into chunks as long as their diameter (to match the chicken cubes).
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