Cut up over politician on the French case (7)
I believe the answer is:
example
'case' is the definition.
(I know that case can be written as example)
'cut up over politician on the french' is the wordplay.
'cut up over' becomes 'exa' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'politician' becomes 'MP' (Member of Parliament).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'exa'+'mp'+'le'='EXAMPLE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for example that I've seen before include "Fact that illustrates a general rule" , "Model - instance" , "Illustration or paradigm" , "Something to be imitated" , "Instance, specimen" .)