what am I, chopped liver

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what am I, chopped liver?

1. A rhetorical question used to indicate that the speaker is feeling left out or slighted by attention given to another person or persons.
   • 1949, Joey Adams, The Curtain Never Falls, New York, N.Y.: F. Fell, →OCLC, page 175:

     You've been nice enough, but what am I, chopped liver or something?