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Meaning: AJewishpâté-likefood, usuallyspreadonbread, made bymincingbeeforchickenliverandonionswhich have beenbroiledorfriedinschmaltz(“chickenfat”)together withhard-boiledeggs.1967,The National Jewish Monthly, Washington, D.C.:B’nai B’rith,→OCLC, page50:The French say they arechopped liverexperts. But you will decide whether Mrs. Weinberg, her mother, her mother's mother and her mother's mother's mother knew the secret of realchopped liver—long before the French did.1974, Molly Finn,Jeri Laber,Cooking for Carefree Weekends, New York, N.Y.:Simon & Schuster,→ISBN, page81:The traditional meal is a fine example of how to get the most from a chicken: the chicken, which is also the main course, produces the liver and the soup as well as the chicken fat which is essential to the flavor of the matzoh balls, thechopped liverand the grated radish.1995, Judith Davis, “The Bar MitzvahBalabusta: Mother’s Role in the Family’s Rite of Passage”, in Maurie Sacks, editor,Active Voices: Women in Jewish Culture, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.:University of Illinois Press,→ISBN, part IV (Ritual Voices),page125:Despite the widespread performance and increasing popularity of the contemporary American bar mitzvah, exceedingly little serious secular study has been devoted to this uniquely tenacious ritual. Perhaps this lack of scholarly attention reflects the negative stereotypes of glitz andchopped livercenter pieces, or the sense that this is, after all, a religious event "best left" to rabbis and Jewish educators.2000June 19,Will Self,How the Dead Live, London:Bloomsbury Publishing,→ISBN,page68:I'm leaning against a General Electric fridge of such purring, juddering, aerodynamic aspect that were I to unsuck the rubber-flanged door and climb inside, settle myself comfortably in amongst the bowls ofchopped liver, the packets of frankfurters, the crinkly heads of lettuce, it might well lift off for the Forbidden Planet.2015January, Delia Rosen, chapter 2, inFry Me a Liver, mass market edition, New York, N.Y.:Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing,→ISBN,pages21–22:We had a run onchopped liverthat morning, which was one of our biggest sellers. It was delicious, yes—more on that later—but people responded to the Yiddish saying that Uncle Murray had put in English next to thechopped liverplatter listing on the menu, as he did with most of the entrées:Gehakteh leber iz besser vi gehakteh truris:Chopped liveris better than miserable troubles.; (idiomatic,humorous,informal)Apersonorobjectnotworthyof beingnoticed; someone or somethinginsignificant.Synonyms:seeThesaurus:nonentityAntonyms:seeThesaurus:important person1949,Joey Adams,The Curtain Never Falls, New York, N.Y.: F. Fell,→OCLC, page175:You've been nice enough, but what am I,chopped liveror something?1962October 23 (first performance),Sidney Kingsley,Night Life: In Three Acts, New York, N.Y.:Dramatists Play Service, published1966,→OCLC, act 1,page16:Two hundred and eighty million dollars in the Union's welfare fund. That ain'tchopped liver.1996, Emma Brookes, chapter 9, inDead Even, New York, N.Y.:St. Martin’s Paperbacks,→ISBN,page95:Well, now, I wouldn't make this change seem like a major overhaul. After all, you weren't exactlychopped liverbefore! But Ididsense that you were deliberately trying to downplay your attractiveness, for whatever reason. Not that you succeeded, of course.1999, Maurice Yacowar, “Moses”, inThe Bold Testament: A Novel, Calgary, Alta.: Bayeux Arts,→ISBN,page43:God is the father ofAbraham,IsaacandJacob. What aboutSarahandRebecca? What aboutLeahandRuth? What are they,chopped liver? All your god respects are the men. Women are nothing to Him.2003January 3,Salam Pax[pseudonym; Salam Abdulmunem], “January 2003”, inSalam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Grove Press,→ISBN,page68:Zaid is especially happy with his friend's visit (you know, the one he keeps telling us is his only real friend ever – I guess we werechopped liver).2009, Dana Brand, “Waxing: How the Mets are More Popular than the Yankees”, inThe Last Days ofShea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan, Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing,Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group,→ISBN,page26:But it really rankledMetsfans when anyone assumed that theYankeeswere New York's main baseball team and the Mets were the little brother, thechopped liver, the city's second team.2011, Barbara J. Yoder, “The Voice of the Bride”, inThe Cry God Hears—and is Waiting to Answer, Bloomington, Minn.: Chosen Books,Baker Publishing Group,→ISBN,page123:Someone had hit the pause button, and I ended up on the waiting list. My beautiful plans had just turned intochopped liver.
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