Citations:chop and change


 * 1) To change or exchange repeatedly
 * 2) *1603 Andrew Willet, An antilogie or counterplea to An apologicall (he should haue said) apologeticall epistle (London: Printed [by Richard Field and Felix Kingston] for Thomas Man) p.88:
 * The Communion booke hath been but once altered a∣mong vs all this while, whereas the forme of the Masse in the Romane profession hath beene often chopped and changed, patched and pieced, by adding to it, and taking from it, which was for the space of 700. yeares, in fining, and refining,* before it came to that deformed perfection which now it hath.
 * 1) *2008, Adrian North and David Hargreaves, The Social and Applied Psychology of Music Oxford University Press ISBN 0191005002 p.34:
 * the complexity of the melody (i.e. the extent to which the melody 'chops and changes')
 * 1) *2012 November 24, Glenn Moore, "Does it actually work to keep chopping and changing the manager?" The Independent (London)
 * 2) To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise
 * 3) *1908, "Dick Donovan" [Joyce Emmerson Muddock] A Gilded Serpent (Ward, Lock & Co.) Chapter XII p.109:
 * That, baldly stated, was the rumour; but it was chopped and changed about, and added to, according to the fancy of the teller.
 * 1) *1937 November 20, Alfred Hitchcock, "Directors Are Dead" Film Weekly:
 * I shudder to think of the pictures that have gone wrong through the old-time all-powerful director, without the right flair, who was allowed to do as he liked on the floor, and chopped and changed stories about until they were completely ruined.
 * 1) * 2010 March 28, "Fake Elegance and Coockoo: Chance & Negation as a Pop-Rock Credo" Far From Moscow
 * The members of Fake Elegance, looking to position themselves somewhere in between rock and pop traditions, chopped and changed the building blocks of various colleagues (or their respective instruments) until a golden mean was in place
 * 1) *2012, Patrick Holford and Fiona McDonald Joyce, The 10 Secrets Of 100% Health Cookbook: Simple and delicious recipes for optimum health (Hachette UK):
 * It includes daily menu options for one week, which you can chop and change, giving you an achievable way to generate your new healthy-eating habits.
 * It includes daily menu options for one week, which you can chop and change, giving you an achievable way to generate your new healthy-eating habits.