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This is a colloquial phrase in Australia to "carry on like a pork chop", maning that someone is behaving in a silly or stupid way. This expression is a truncated version of the longer and more widespread phrase be like a pork chop in a synagogue; this has been around since the 1950s. Since pork is forbidden food for Jewish people, to describe something as being like a pork chop in a synagogue means that it is highly [inappropriate], embarrassingly out of place, and quite unwelcome. The [Australian] expression carry on like a pork chop has now shifted the focus from inappropriateness to foolishness. (Often happens with truncated [expressions] — they kind of go their merry way!)
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