How to pronounce “cut corners”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
• (idiomatic) To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.

Practice Nearby Words

cut across, cut through, beat the system, work around, cut in, turn square corners, skirt around, get around, get round, corner, undertake, head off at the pass, jump the lights, cheat, sneak past, bend the rules, divebomb, run a red light, go round, circumnavigate, back door, get away with, outcorner, squeeze under, frogger, cut in line, shunpike, cut up, jayrun, rat run, overtake, smuggle past, curve, turn a corner, outrace, give way, outbrake, swing off, sidetrack, make a light, strafe, color outside the lines, brigue, cut about, knock off, jump the line, curb, run afoul of, overclimb, go play in the traffic, hit-skip, run ahead, shift, go out of one's way, switchback, angle-shoot, hook off, chicane, cross the line, put it to, override, skirt, turn the corner, railroad, counter surf, windlass, counter-surf, breeze past, cross, fray, let past, go rogue, push past, circumpass, stretch the rules, jaywalk, go play in traffic, run with scissors, swerve, play the angles, hack, run across, make the best of one's way, quirk, cross someone's path, kerb crawl, stretch a point, get by with, butt, pull out, make a run for it, fight dirty, circumduct, toe the line, countersurf, go down the road, rogue, change course, cut back, get a run on

Similar Sounds

cut corners, kitty corner, kitty-corner, catacorner, catty corner, hot corner, corners, catkins, cutworms, caterers