Related Clues:
- Avoiding starch, say
- Giving a pink slip
- Pink-slipping
- Consuming carefully
- Eating carefully
- Making cuts for middle management?
- Watching calories
- Giving the old heave-ho
- Dismissing, sometimes
- Cutting from the payroll
- Making staff cuts
- Bringing down, lowering
- Chopping, wood or jobs say
- Following doctor's orders, perhaps
- Breaking open, perhaps