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cut across
verb
- intr to be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations
opinion on European integration still cuts clean across party lines
- to cross or traverse, making a shorter route
she cut across the field quickly
Idioms and Phrases
Go beyond, transcend, as in The new regulations cut across class lines . This figurative use of cut across , which literally means “run through” or “intersect,” dates from the 1920s.Example Sentences
What he called a “sex ring” cut across all of Hollywood: “studios, agents, directors, producers, and actors,” Herman said.
However, in trying to cut across a flooded rice field, he and his friends are bogged down.
Yes, Republicans hated Clinton, but he was Southern and enough of a good old boy that he cut across those lines to some extent.
Recovering addict Tony Rogers talks about the hidden train tracks that cut across Kensington.
In the springtime for Iraq, a nationalist-secular party that cut across the Sunni-Shiite divide did remarkably well.
He has an ugly scar—a knife-cut—across the back of one hand; you can't mistake him if you get sight of him.
I made a short cut across the graveyard of Saint Francis, or I must have met the escort.
They came to a place where the river made a wide bend and they cut across it, clear of the trees.
A number of slots are cut across one side of the can, and the lower edge of each slot slightly turned out to form a cutting edge.
Bernard's farm is cut across by the Port Royal road, the old road to Richmond, and by the railroad.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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