chopping block
a thick, often large block of wood on which meat, vegetables, etc., are placed for cutting, trimming, chopping, and the like.
Origin of chopping block
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How to use chopping block in a sentence
And how do fraternity members feel about their organizations being on the chopping block?
Also, programs designed to help low-income families are always the first on the chopping block when state revenues go down.
Free Market Failure: Raising a Kid Is a Rigged Game in the USA | Monica Potts | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut this year, amid severe budget cuts in Washington; it once again went to the chopping block.
Gov't Abandons Best Survey for Counting U.S. Drug Users | Abby Haglage | April 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“As soon as a financial crisis or economic downturn happens, often mental health is back on the chopping block,” Gruttadaro says.
How American Hospitals Are Failing Mentally Ill Kids | Brandy Zadrozny | March 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCalifornia has been offered up for the chopping block over 200 times.
Looking about, he saw an ax sticking in a chopping-block, and a pile of wood near it, probably the fuel used by these people.
Flight From Tomorrow | Henry Beam PiperGuess we can do that, all right, Frank, he exclaimed; and theres your ax over by the chopping block.
The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods | Quincy AllenHe inspected it deliberately, and then sat weakly down on the chopping block near by.
Cy Whittaker's Place | Joseph C. LincolnHiram noticed how he picked certain kinds of wood from the abundant supply over at the chopping block.
The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna | Herbert CarterThere, with a sigh as though his heart were breaking, the old man seated himself on the chopping block.
The Grammar School Boys of Gridley | H. Irving Hancock
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