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cut out

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cut someone or something out
to eliminate someone or something. They cut out the free coffee with lunch at the cafeteria. We have to cut Chuck out. There are too many better men on the team.
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cut out

to depart; to leave in a hurry. Good-bye. I have to cut out now. It's time I was cutting out. I'm late already.
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cut out (for some place) and light out (for some place)

to leave quickly for some place. The kids all cut out for home. When they heard their mother call, the Wilson kids cut out for home.
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cut out something also cut something out
to end or stop something You should cut out eating ice cream and get more exercise. We cut out cable TV and have saved a lot of money. She wants to cut meat out of her diet altogether.
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They were exactly alike, from one end of the line to the other, and all were cut out of paper and joined together in the centers of their bodies.
"There's lots o' dead wood as ought to be cut out," he said.
Has a piece cut out of each ear, and the middle finger of the left hand cut off to the second joint.
 
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