"cut it fine" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "‘No, — I hadn’t time. I was due at the station, — I was cutting it pretty fine as it was.’",
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        "To achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error."
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        "(idiomatic, UK) To achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error."
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          "text": "“O stop, stop,” cried the Mole in ecstacies: “This is too much!”\n“Do you really think so?” enquired the Rat seriously. “It’s only what I always take on these little excursions; and the other animals are always telling me that I’m a mean beast and cut it very fine!”",
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        "To be stingy."
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        "(idiomatic, UK) To be stingy."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, it, fine."
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        {
          "_dis1": "20 11 70",
          "word": "cut it close"
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      ],
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        "To achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error."
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        "(idiomatic, UK) To achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error."
      ],
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          "text": "“O stop, stop,” cried the Mole in ecstacies: “This is too much!”\n“Do you really think so?” enquired the Rat seriously. “It’s only what I always take on these little excursions; and the other animals are always telling me that I’m a mean beast and cut it very fine!”",
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      ],
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        "To be stingy."
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        "(idiomatic, UK) To be stingy."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "idiomatic"
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, it, fine."
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