chop and change

English

Verb

chop and change (third-person singular simple present chops and changes, present participle chopping and changing, simple past and past participle chopped and changed)

1. To change or exchange repeatedly.
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   • 1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Money for (road) jam”, in Modern Railways, page 153:

     [...] and a good many people at B.T.C. headquarters and at Euston are still smarting from the Select Committee strictures on the L.M.R. Western Lines electrification estimates, whilst the nation at large is suffering from the effects of chopping and changing the electrification schemes.

2. To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change.

Derived terms

• choppy-changey