The phrase, “chop and change,’’ meaning to alter or differ, is a survival of an early expression in which the word “chop” has its original meaning of “barter.” As early as 1526 the phrase is used in .a Bible translation as follows: “Many . . . . which choppe and change with the word of God.” Just as the original sense of “chop” has gradually become less distinct, so the meaning of the whole expression now indicates the act of changing rather than bartering.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1938, Page 3
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