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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. The Road to Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context 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. Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context 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. Before Adam by London, Jack View in context			cut out of cut out to be cut own throat cut some slack cut teeth cut teeth in cut the cheese Cut the comedy! cut the cord cut the crap Cut the crap! cut the deadwood out cut the dust cut the ground from under / feet cut the ground out from under cut the pie up cut throat cut through cut through like a knife through butter cut through red tape cut to cut to ribbons cut to the bone cut to the chase cut to the quick cut up cut up rough cut water off cut with cut wolf loose cut your peaches cut-and-dried cute cute as a bug's ear cutting cutting edge cylinder dab dab at dab off dab on dabble dabble at dabble in Dad fetch my buttons! daddy daddy of them all dagger daily daily dozen daily grind			cut thru cut thru cut thru cut time cut time cut to cut to Cut to Length cut to ribbons cut to ribbons cut to ribbons cut to ribbons Cut to Size Cut To Suit, Beat To Fit cut to the bone cut to the bone cut to the bone cut to the bone cut to the chase cut to the chase cut to the chase cut to the chase cut to the chase cut to the chase cut to the quick cut to the quick cut to the quick cut to the quick cut to the quick cut two ways cut up cut up didoes cut up didoes cut up didos cut up didos cut up rough cut ups cut value Cut vertex cut water off cut with cut wolf loose Cut work Cut work Cut Your Clothes According to Your Cloth cut your peaches Cut, Cap and Balance Act Cut, Cap, and Balance Act Cut, Clarity, Color and Carat Cut, copy and paste Cut, copy and paste Cut, copy, and paste Cut, copy, and paste Cut, copy, and paste Cut, Make & Trim cut- cut-and-carry method cut-and-cover cut-and-cover cut-and-dried cut-and-dried

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