单词 | cut and run |
释义 | Example sentences from the Web for cut and run
cut and runSEE SYNONYMS FOR cut and run ON THESAURUS.COM Clear out, escape, desert, as in He wished he could just cut and run. This term originally (about 1700) meant to cut a vessel's anchor cable and make sail at once. By the mid-1800s it was being used figuratively. Charles Dickens had it in Great Expectations (1861): “I'd give a shilling if they had cut and run.” Also see cut out, def. 7. Words nearby cut and runcut a long story short, cut-and-cover, cut-and-dried, cut and fill, cut-and-paste, cut and run, cut and thrust, cut-and-try, cutaneomeningospinal angiomatosis, cutaneous, cutaneous horn 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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