get the chop
be given the chop

Or, "Has he got the chops to play with this group?"

Well, the paper industry had its most recent downsizing two years ago, when I got the chop.

I suppose now is the time to start looking at who will be the first coach to get the chop this year.

There were rumors he was going to get the chop."

If there is ever 2 women to one man, then man always gets the chop.

I find it hard to feel excited about music at the moment; the first thing that gets the chop in any recession is the arts.

And if his wife had chopped three X-ray technicians before she got the chop, she'd still be working at that hospital.

This place is a total dictatorship and if anybody steps out of line they get the chop."

Two ranges got the chop - the P and the D series.

Nearly always one at least was missing, and that meant that seven men we all knew had got the chop.

There's a lot of psychosomatic illness among us, we who've gotten the chop.

Who cares if the new Father Abbas gets the chop?

He'll do it so we'll owe him, and in the doing, he can prove he's still got the chops he started out with.

But after you get the chop, you can't afford that fairy story any more.

The ones who got the chop were always the ones who never knew when to call it a day.

'The way this reads, he was about to get the chop,' I said.

I'd like to see him do more character driven drama than trashy action pieces, he's clearly got the chops.

She added: "But if you don't rave you've made an enemy and you're likely to get the chop when that person's turn comes around."

They were down there doing a job and when they weren't needed any more they got the chop!

If you've got the chops, you can go anywhere and do anything, even change personality as often as you want.

This weekend it emerged that six EastEnders characters are to get the chop.

Think she's still got the chops?

And it was opener Metcalfe who got the chop for the second time this season after a run of indifferent form.

Holding two entrees, he waves both before us, with a question ranging from the most objectionable "Who gets the chopped liver?"

And now he's got the chop.