Carry on like a pork chop is a wonderfully Australian idiom for making a ridiculous, unnecessary fuss — behaving in an over-the-top, foolish, or irrational way. If someone is carrying on like a pork chop, they're being dramatic, acting out, or causing a scene over something that doesn't warrant it. The pork chop reference is delightfully absurd, which is part of the point — the comparison itself signals how silly the behavior looks to everyone watching.
He missed the bus by thirty seconds and started carrying on like a pork chop as if the world was ending.
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(AU, slang) To make a foolish fuss.
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