See cut through on Wiktionary
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{ "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English phrasal verbs", "English phrasal verbs formed with \"through\"", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "forms": [ { "form": "cuts through", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "cutting through", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "cut through", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "cut through", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "cut<,,cut> through" }, "expansion": "cut through (third-person singular simple present cuts through, present participle cutting through, simple past and past participle cut through)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "related": [ { "word": "Gordian knot" } ], "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, through." ], "links": [ [ "cut", "cut#English" ], [ "through", "through#English" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English idioms", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "Can we cut through the bureaucracy and make a decision on the spot?", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To dispense with or quickly deal with (an issue that is seen as an obstruction or waste of time)." ], "links": [ [ "dispense with", "dispense with" ], [ "deal with", "deal with" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) To dispense with or quickly deal with (an issue that is seen as an obstruction or waste of time)." ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "I usually cut through the woods to get home, but last night it was too dark.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To take a shortcut through." ], "links": [ [ "shortcut", "shortcut" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "cut across" } ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2021 December 27, Matthew Taylor, quoting Asad Rehman, “Asad Rehman on climate justice: ‘Now we are seeing these arguments cut through’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:", "text": "[…] making the case that you cannot understand the climate crisis without understanding that there is an arch from slavery to colonialism and imperialism to the climate crisis … Now we are seeing those arguments cut through.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To reach (an audience etc.)." ], "links": [ [ "reach", "reach" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(figurative) To reach (an audience etc.)." ], "tags": [ "figuratively" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "en-au-cut through.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/86/En-au-cut_through.ogg/En-au-cut_through.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/En-au-cut_through.ogg" } ], "word": "cut through" }
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