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How might butcher be sacked? (3,3,4)

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get the chop

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(Other definitions for get the chop that I've seen before include "Collect one's P45" , "what the butcher might do" , "you might do this at the butcher's counter" , "To be summarily dismissed" , "Be fired (informal)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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