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Unread May 24th, 2009, 01:20 pm
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Default Re: on a chopping block

You'll have to give us the full context Tania - your interpretation seems likely, but without knowing the full sentence it's difficult to say. It's not a standard idiom but a metaphor which needs to be interpreted withing the context. i can think of several other possibilities.
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