cut through sth
— phrasal verb with cut uk/kʌt/us/kʌt/verb present participle cutting, past tense and past participle cut
If you cut through something difficult that usually causes problems, you quickly understand it or deal with it so that it does not cause problems for you:
She always manages to cut through the complex theory and get at the facts.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dealing with things or people
- attend to sb/sth
- beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
- come up against sth
- come/get to grips with sth idiom
- confront
- cut
- firefighting
- get sth in
- inherit
- jump-start
- negotiate
- process
- reckon
- reckon with sb/sth
- see about sth
- see to sth/sb
- set about sth
- sort
- turn
- weather
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