cut through

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cut through something

to make clear something that has been made difficult to understand. She cut through all the political talk and outlined what was wrong and what could be done to fix it.

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In the course of half an hour Mary thought she could tell too, and when he cut through a lifeless-looking branch she would cry out joyfully under her breath when she caught sight of the least shade of moist green. The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson View in context When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal {32} Thrasymedes dealt his blow, and brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor, and his venerable wife Eurydice (she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with delight. The Odyssey by Homer View in context However, Captain Nemo had rushed to the poulp, and with one blow of the axe had cut through one arm. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context More results

References in classic literature

In the course of half an hour Mary thought she could tell too, and when he cut through a lifeless-looking branch she would cry out joyfully under her breath when she caught sight of the least shade of moist green.

The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances Hodgson View in context

When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal {32} Thrasymedes dealt his blow, and brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor, and his venerable wife Eurydice (she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with delight.

The Odyssey by Homer View in context

However, Captain Nemo had rushed to the poulp, and with one blow of the axe had cut through one arm.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context

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