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cut across something

1. . and cut across Lit. to travel across a particular area; to take a shortcut across a particular area. Please don't cut across the neighbor's yard anymore.

2. Fig. to reach beyond something; to embrace a wide variety; to slice across a figurative boundary or barrier. His teaching cut across all human cultures and races. This rule cuts across all social barriers.

See also: across, cut

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I was glad that, catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stores, he remembered an engagement to play cards at his club, and so left me to cut across St. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context By the road, Baywater was six miles away, but there was a short cut across hills and fields and woods which was scantly three. The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context			curtain curtain off curtains for curtsy to curve curve to cushion cushion the blow cuss cuss a blue streak cuss out custody customer customer is always right cut cut a break cut a check cut a deal cut a figure cut a fine figure cut a rug cut a swath cut a swath through cut a wide swath cut above cut across cut along cut an [interesting etc.] figure cut and dried cut and paste cut and run cut around cut at cut away cut back cut back to cut both ways cut class cut coat according to cloth cut corners cut dead cut down cut down to cut down to size cut eyes at cut eyeteeth on cut from cut from the same cloth cut in cut into cut it fine			cut a deal cut a fat hog cut a fat hog cut a fat hog cut a fat hog cut a figure cut a figure cut a figure cut a figure cut a figure cut a fine figure cut a long story short Cut a Melon cut a ribbon cut a ribbon cut a ribbon cut a rug cut a swath cut a swath cut a swath through cut a swath through cut a swathe through cut a tape cut a wide swath cut a wide swath cut a wide swath cut a wide swath cut a wide swath cut a wide swathe cut above cut across cut adrift cut against the grain Cut All to Shreds cut along cut along Cut Amplified Noise cut an [interesting etc.] figure cut an figure cut an figure cut an figure cut an figure Cut and Come Again Cut and dried Cut and dried Cut and fill Cut and fill cut and fit Cut and longtail Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Cut and Paste Artist Cut and run Cut and Sifted cut and thrust cut apart cut around cut at

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