chop something out

The building permit was finally given in 1985, but the construction went no further than chopping out a few trees.

She cut him off and chopped out with her robotic arm.

Now his voice chopped out words and seemed to hurl them outward with physical force.

I had chopped it out in the rough some place.

Literally - chopped out with a scalpel on live television.

He dragged his first wife around by the hair and chopped out all the doors in their home.

Human hands had done this not long ago, chopping out easy access to this place.

The magazines are cut up, falling apart, with pictures chopped out from many pages.

But he's also wise to start chopping out a niche for himself.

She chopped out a lot, but we still put it on.