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cut up |
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cut someone or something up Fig. to criticize someone or something severely. Jane is such a gossip. She was really cutting Mrs. Jones up. The professor really cut up my essay. cut someone up Fig. to make someone laugh. That comedian's routine really cut me up. Tommy's rude noises cut the whole class up, but not the teacher. cut someone up Fig. to make someone laugh. That comedian's routine really cut me up. Tommy's rude noises cut the whole class up, but not the teacher. cut up (about someone or something) Sl. emotionally upset about someone or something. She was all cut up about her divorce. You could see how cut up she was. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As they sat on the grass by the roadside the shaggy man cut up the turkey with his pocket-knife and passed slices of it around. But you know that in my hunter's way I can just as easily skin and cut up a piece of game as kill it. In the intervals of pandemonium, each chattered, cut up, hooted, screeched, and danced, himself sufficient unto himself, filled with his own ideas and volitions to the exclusion of all others, a veritable centre of the universe, divorced for the time being from any unanimity with the other universe-centres leaping and yelling around him. |
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