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Phrase(s): snip something off
Go to snip something off (of) something., Phrase(s): snip something off (of) something [and] snip something off
to cut something off something. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) • She snipped a dead blossom off the rosebush. • Jane snipped off a bud.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs