"chop and change" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chops and changes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chopping and changing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chopped and changed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chopped and changed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "chop<> and change<>"
      },
      "expansion": "chop and change (third-person singular simple present chops and changes, present participle chopping and changing, simple past and past participle chopped and changed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "choppy-changey"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Money for (road) jam”, in Modern Railways, page 153:",
          "text": "[...] and a good many people at B.T.C. headquarters and at Euston are still smarting from the Select Committee strictures on the L.M.R. Western Lines electrification estimates, whilst the nation at large is suffering from the effects of chopping and changing the electrification schemes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To change or exchange repeatedly."
      ],
      "id": "en-chop_and_change-en-verb-MCzVtq4k",
      "links": [
        [
          "exchange",
          "exchange"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 76",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise."
      ],
      "id": "en-chop_and_change-en-verb-StHRiMAb",
      "links": [
        [
          "rearrange",
          "rearrange"
        ],
        [
          "reconfigure",
          "reconfigure"
        ],
        [
          "customise",
          "customise"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chop and change"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English alliterative phrases",
    "English coordinated pairs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "choppy-changey"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chops and changes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chopping and changing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chopped and changed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chopped and changed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "chop<> and change<>"
      },
      "expansion": "chop and change (third-person singular simple present chops and changes, present participle chopping and changing, simple past and past participle chopped and changed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Money for (road) jam”, in Modern Railways, page 153:",
          "text": "[...] and a good many people at B.T.C. headquarters and at Euston are still smarting from the Select Committee strictures on the L.M.R. Western Lines electrification estimates, whilst the nation at large is suffering from the effects of chopping and changing the electrification schemes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To change or exchange repeatedly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exchange",
          "exchange"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rearrange",
          "rearrange"
        ],
        [
          "reconfigure",
          "reconfigure"
        ],
        [
          "customise",
          "customise"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chop and change"
}