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cut out en · ADJ
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(idiomatic, in the negative) Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose.
Do you think he is cut out for the role of manager?
We've got our work cut out for us.
I'm not really cut out for camping outdoors. I'm allergic to mosquito bites.
I was cut out to be a jazzman the way the righteous are chosen for the church.
1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3:
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have one's work cut out for one
Translations (16)
es tener capacidad como para (well suited for an activity) · de auf etwas zugeschnitten sein (well suited for an activity) · es tener madera para (well suited for an activity) · de aus dem rechten Holz geschnitzt sein (well suited for an activity) · es servir para (well suited for an activity) · es ser apto para (well suited for an activity) · da egne (well suited for an activity) · da egne sig (well suited for an activity) · es tener madera de (well suited for an activity) · es estar hecho para (well suited for an activity) · da være skabt til (well suited for an activity) · hu kitalál (in the phrase ki van találva) (well suited for an activity) · it idoneo (well suited for an activity) · it ritagliato (well suited for an activity) · it adeguato (well suited for an activity) · es tener talento para (well suited for an activity)
cut out en · VERB
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To sever from something larger, with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument.
Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster.
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(informal, transitive) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
He had to cut out smoking in order to be prepared for the marathon.
“Cut that joshing out,” she said, coolly and briskly. “Who do you think you are talking to? Your check, please. Oh, Lordy!—”
1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students, but if it is to retain favor the intercollegiate league should cut out the muckerism which has attended its contests on the ice in recent years.
1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 7, page 210:I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing — that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out.
1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 8:She kept clicking her heels. He told her to cut it out.
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(transitive) To remove; to omit.
If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits.
Help me find a sharper knife
I need to cut you out my life
2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Jon Levine, Scott Jacoby, “Congratulations”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten:
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(transitive) To oust; to replace.
[…] cut him out in the affections of his lady-love!
1899, Lady's Realm, volume 5, page 172:
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(Australia, New-Zealand, US) To separate (an animal) from the herd.
There was little fear that the navigator of the captured Osprey, the man who had lived in Chile and "cut out" cattle on the Carrum Plains, would prove lacking in knowledge of riding, seamanship, or Spanish customs.
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.2:
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(intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
Can you say that again? You keep cutting out.
It was around then that the engine suddenly cut out.
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(intransitive) To leave suddenly.
'True. I told you to take it home with you. It's still there?'
'Yes, sir.... But I could cut out and be back under the hour—time to do these letters for the post.'
1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:He must have cut out of the party.
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(qualifier:usually passive voice) To arrange or prepare.
He has his work cut out for him.
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(transitive) To intercept.
As lax as the visitors' defence was, Blackpool's backline was solid. In the first half the Seasiders cut out final balls to Meireles, one of Liverpool's best players, on two occasions and after the break the brilliant Craig Cathcart got enough on his headed clearance to prevent Torres from planting into the net at the far post.
2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2022:
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To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
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(Australia, intransitive, slang) To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.
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(Australia, New-Zealand) To spend (money).
After the flicks, Les and I cut out what was left of the cone money on a milkshake.
1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 6:
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Deriveds
cut-out · cutout · cut out the middleman
Translations (58)
fi sammua (stop working, be disconnected) · fi pysähtyä (stop working, be disconnected) · eo altranĉi (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · hu kivág (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · ru убра́ть (remove, omit) · de ausschneiden (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · it togliere (remove, omit) · it smetterla (refrain from (doing)) · es recortar (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · mg manajanona (refrain from (doing)) · de weglassen (remove, omit) · fi pidättäytyä (refrain from (doing)) · es dejar de (refrain from (doing)) · ru убира́ть (remove, omit) · hu kiiktat (remove, omit) · eo ĉesi (refrain from (doing)) · hu kiküszöböl (remove, omit) · it tagliare (remove, omit) · ru возде́рживаться (refrain from (doing)) · fi leikata pois (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · nl wegvallen (stop working, be disconnected) · mg manala (remove, omit) · de aufhören (refrain from (doing)) · pt cortar (stop working, be disconnected) · fr caler (stop working, be disconnected) · nl afslaan (stop working, be disconnected) · ru выреза́ть (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · de übergehen (remove, omit) · es quitar (remove, omit) · de trennen (stop working, be disconnected) · de ausfallen (stop working, be disconnected) · fr arrêter de (refrain from (doing)) · ru вы́резать (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · fi irrottaa (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · es dejar (refrain from (doing)) · hu kivesz (remove, omit) · grc ἐκτέμνω (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · de unterlassen (refrain from (doing)) · it rimuovere (remove, omit) · de überspringen (remove, omit) · it levare (remove, omit) · it ritagliare (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · es omitir (remove, omit) · es cortar (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · fa قطع شدن (stop working, be disconnected) · ru воздержа́ться (refrain from (doing)) · hu leszokik (refrain from (doing)) · no kutte ut (refrain from (doing)) · nl uitvallen (stop working, be disconnected) · hu abbahagy (refrain from (doing)) · fi katketa (stop working, be disconnected) · fr enlever (remove, omit) · fr supprimer (remove, omit) · fi poistaa (remove, omit) · fi eliminoida (remove, omit) · izh leikata (to separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever) · es saltarse (remove, omit) · it finirla (refrain from (doing))