Sentence examples for lop it off from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, red meat can shave minutes off your life while cigs will lop it off in half-hour chunks.

At their first meeting, when Wallace told him all of the things he had been through in an attempt to fix his leg, Prince joked, "You should just lop it off".

"Excuse me, Mr. Elephant," I might say, "You probably do not realize this, you weighing 15,000 pounds more than me and me being an insignificant little writer, but you are standing on my foot and any minute gangrene will set in and Civil War re-enactors will have to swoop down and lop it off, which I know, from 'Lincoln,' will not be pretty.

If nothing else, we're just impressed that the app's developers, SparkTooth, managed to pitch this in such a way that Apple didn't try to lop it off at the knees.

Somebody wants to lop it off". Although state law requires a city to endorse an ordinance or place it before the voters once the petition signatures have been verified, city officials agreed the proposal would put the city at tremendous legal risk by rendering large chunks of land and individually owned lots unbuildable.

As the company introduced multitouch, it no longer needed that button — one tap acted like a single click — but the company didn't just lop it off.

He had lopped it off days earlier.

But when the surgeon lopped it off, there were small traces of "active cells".

Famously, Van Gogh cut off his own ear (though some historians now claim it was, in fact, Gaugin who lopped it off in a fit of pique but the Dutchman was so drunk at the time that he thought he'd done it himself, or something), whereas Ferguson is currently in the process of lopping off his own nose, apparently to spite his face.

He cast it in gun metal, lopped it off at the torso, and cut off an arm, taking a symbol of power and making it impotent and crippled.

One for stretching the strand until it's taut, the other for lopping it off.