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 Chop-fallen.Chop Logic (To). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Chop-House (A).
 
An eating-house where chops and steaks are served.   1
        “John Bull … would set up a chop-house at the very gates of paradise.”—Washington Irving: vol. i. chap. vi. p. 61.
   A Chinese custom-house is called a Chop-house (Hindu, chap, a stamp).   2
 


 Chop-fallen.Chop Logic (To). 

 
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