cut out
to remove or eliminate something
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cut out
Left in the lurch ; superseded. In cards, when there are too many for a game (say whist), it is customary for the players to cut out after a rubber, in order that another player may have a turn. This is done by the players cutting the cards on the table, when the lowest turn-up gives place to the new hand.
cut out of whole cloth
Entirely false. Suggested probably by the mendacious claims of tailors' advertisements.
cut red tape
To eliminate or simplify bureaucratic procedures
cut someone cold
Deliberately ignore or show indifference to someone.
cut someone dead
Deliberately ignore or show indifference to someone
cut someone loose
To release or abandon someone from a responsibility or relationship
cut someone some slack
Treat someone with more leniency or tolerance
cut swathes
To make a strong impression or have a significant impact
cut the cheese
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cut the cord
To become independent or free from something
Cut the head off the snake (see Lernaean Hydra myth)
Eliminate the source or leader of a problem
cut the mustard
to succeed or accomplish something
cut the pigeon wing
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
cut the umbilical cord
Become independent from something or someone
cut through
To simplify or resolve a complex situation
cut to pieces
completely defeat or criticize someone
cut up
to upset or distress someone
cut up nasty
to speak badly or criticize someone
cut up rough
behave badly or aggressively
cut your coat according to your cloth
Spend only what you can afford
cut your wisdom teeth
When persons say or do silly things, the remark is made to them that "they have not yet cut their wisdom teeth," or reached years of discretion.
cut-throat
A butcher, a cattle-slaughterer; a ruffian.
cute
Sharp, cunning. Abbreviation of ACUTE.
cute as a bug in a rug
Very cute.
cute as a button
Very cute.
cute as a pin
Very cute.
cutex
nail polish
Cutler's Poetry
Mere jingles or rhymes. Knives had, at one time, a distich inscribed on the blade by means of aqua fortis.
cutter
A ruffian, a cut-purse. Of Robin Hood it was said—
cutter's law
Not to see a fellow want while we have cash in our purse. Cutter's law means the law of purse-cutters, robbers, brigands, and highwaymen.
cuttie
A cutback.
cutting edge
The most advanced or innovative stage of something
cutting-shop
A place where cheap rough goods are sold.
cutty stool
A small stool on which offenders were placed in the Scottish church when they were about to receive a public rebuke. Cp. STOOL OF REPENTANCE.
cutty-pipe
A short clay pipe. Scotch, CUTTY, short.
cutty-sark
A short chemise.—Scotch. A scantily-draped lady is so called by Burns.
cuzzo
A cousin.
cycle of the sun
A period of twenty-eight years, at the expiration of which time the Sunday letters recur and proceed in the same order as they did twenty-eight years previously. In other words, the days of the month fall again on the same days of the week.
Cyclic Poets
Epic poets who, on the death of Homer, caught the contagion of his poems, and wrote continuations, illustra- tions, or additions thereto. These poets wrote between 800 and 550 B.C., and were called cyclic because they confined themselves to the cycle of the Trojan war. The chief were Agias, Arctmos, Eugamon, Lesches, and Strasinos.
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. (Ambrose Bierce)
A cynic is someone who sees the worst in things
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