A rogue appendix can be chopped out; an infection can be treated with antibiotics.
Now and then, the movie develops hiccups, as if frames had been chopped out — a tribute to needy projectionists of old who kept the images they liked best.
The zais had to be chopped out with a pickaxe or a hoe, the trees continually pruned and protected from goats and poachers.
TfL needs to go through a zero base budgeting exercise and a fair few activities need to be chopped out and its focus brought back to making a few key transport modes cheaper, more reliable and more comfortable for Londoners, not least walking and cycling.
In the chunky lines of pure gangster movie cliché that we'd been chopped out thus far, we should've guessed that a double-cross was likely.
"Even the most determined secular Syrians look at the al-Nusra designation, and it takes some of the winds out of their sails, because America in essence is chopping out the military effort at the knees," said Joshua Landis, a Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma.
The MRSA is being chopped out of her all-too-fleshy organs.
Indeed, he argues that in a sense, every book ever written is chopped out of another one, ie the dictionary.
A number of Banksy murals have been chopped out of walls and sold on the common market by the owners of the property they appeared on but they normally fetch a much higher price.
The drums had been chopped out of logs, a leper was waving palm branches, and bare-breasted pubescent girls, their wire-spring pigtails sprouting in almost Gothic patterns, advanced on me in waving columns".
