"chopped liver" meaning in English

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          "text": "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, the chopped liver and the grated radish.",
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          "text": "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 and chopped liver center pieces, or the sense that this is, after all, a religious event \"best left\" to rabbis and Jewish educators.",
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          "text": "We had a run on chopped liver that 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 the chopped liver platter listing on the menu, as he did with most of the entrées: Gehakteh leber iz besser vi gehakteh truris: Chopped liver is better than miserable troubles.",
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          "ref": "1949, Joey Adams, The Curtain Never Falls, New York, N.Y.: F. Fell, →OCLC, page 175",
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          "ref": "1962 October 23 (first performance), Sidney Kingsley, Night Life: In Three Acts, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 1966, →OCLC, act 1, page 16",
          "text": "Two hundred and eighty million dollars in the Union's welfare fund. That ain't chopped liver.",
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          "ref": "1996, Emma Brookes, chapter 9, in Dead Even, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, page 95",
          "text": "Well, now, I wouldn't make this change seem like a major overhaul. After all, you weren't exactly chopped liver before! But I did sense that you were deliberately trying to downplay your attractiveness, for whatever reason. Not that you succeeded, of course.",
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          "ref": "1999, Maurice Yacowar, “Moses”, in The Bold Testament: A Novel, Calgary, Alta.: Bayeux Arts, page 43",
          "text": "God is the father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. What about Sarah and Rebecca? What about Leah and Ruth? What are they, chopped liver? All your god respects are the men. Women are nothing to Him.",
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          "ref": "2003 January 3, Salam Pax [pseudonym; Salam Abdulmunem], “January 2003”, in Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, page 68",
          "text": "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 were chopped liver).",
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          "ref": "2009, Dana Brand, “Waxing: How the Mets are More Popular than the Yankees”, in The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan, Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, page 26",
          "text": "But it really rankled Mets fans when anyone assumed that the Yankees were New York's main baseball team and the Mets were the little brother, the chopped liver, the city's second team.",
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          "ref": "2011, Barbara J. Yoder, “The Voice of the Bride”, in The Cry God Hears—and is Waiting to Answer, Bloomington, Minn.: Chosen Books, Baker Publishing Group, page 123",
          "text": "Someone had hit the pause button, and I ended up on the waiting list. My beautiful plans had just turned into chopped liver.",
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          "text": "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 and chopped liver center pieces, or the sense that this is, after all, a religious event \"best left\" to rabbis and Jewish educators.",
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          "ref": "1962 October 23 (first performance), Sidney Kingsley, Night Life: In Three Acts, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 1966, →OCLC, act 1, page 16",
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          "text": "But it really rankled Mets fans when anyone assumed that the Yankees were New York's main baseball team and the Mets were the little brother, the chopped liver, the city's second team.",
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        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɒpt ˌlɪvə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃɑpt ˌlɪvɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-chopped liver.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-chopped_liver.ogg/En-au-chopped_liver.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-chopped_liver.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "word": "fetge picat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "word": "jauhettu maksa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gehackte Leber"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "word": "כבד קצוץ"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "word": "hati cincang"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "word": "جگر خردشده"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jetreni namaz"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hígado picado"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "gehakte leber",
      "sense": "Jewish pâté-like food",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "געהאַקטע לעבער"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person or object not worthy of being noticed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "moins-que-rien"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person or object not worthy of being noticed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mezzacalzetta"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Michael Quinion",
    "Sol Steinmetz",
    "The New York Times Company",
    "The New York Times Magazine"
  ],
  "word": "chopped liver"
}