'carve off' is a valid phrase in written English that carries the meaning of separating or removing something.
For example: "The cook carved off the fatty parts of the steak before serving it."
Cattle carcasses hang from hooks as butchers carve off slabs of flesh.
Reconfigure your workload so that you can carve off some time.
Carve the bird at the table: remove the legs first, then carve off the breasts.
How realistic is it to think you can carve off a piece of your problem with this effort?
How realistic is it to think you can carve off a piece of your problems with this effort?
And we also carve off a piece of our earnings for the group that vests over three years.
Broad soon added the wicket of Ashish Bagai, the Canada captain backing away to try to carve off-side runs and looking astonished when he merely presented Pietersen with a routine catch in the gully.
The thigh meat can just be carved off the bone, or cut into chunks.
Others spend years in obscurity, carving off pounds of credibility for meager dollops of fame.
When you peel a pineapple, you end up carving off quite a lot of flesh.
There, the bank carves off a chunk of the money you owe and puts it aside.
