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"text": "[…] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]"
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"To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road."
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"sense": "bypass a prescribed route",
"word": "oikaista"
},
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"sense": "bypass a prescribed route",
"word": "prendre des raccourcis"
},
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"sense": "bypass a prescribed route",
"word": "prendere delle scorciatoie"
},
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"sense": "bypass a prescribed route",
"word": "atalhar"
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"text": "The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm."
},
{
"text": "Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners."
}
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"To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts."
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"(idiomatic) To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts."
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"word": "take short cut"
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"word": "follow the path of least resistance"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "偷工減料"
},
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "偷工减料"
},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "vetää mutkat suoriksi"
},
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"word": "hutiloida"
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "mennä sieltä mistä aita on matalin"
},
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
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},
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "käyttää helpointa tapaa"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
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"word": "couper les coins ronds"
},
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"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "he",
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "עיגל פינות \\ עִגֵּל פִּנּוֹת"
},
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "手を抜く"
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "iść na skróty"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "gambiarrar"
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"text": "[…] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]"
}
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],
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"text": "The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm."
},
{
"text": "Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners."
}
],
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],
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"(idiomatic) To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts."
],
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"sense": "do a less-than-thorough job",
"word": "skimp"
},
{
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough job",
"word": "take short cut"
},
{
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough job",
"word": "follow the path of least resistance"
},
{
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough job",
"word": "take the easy way out"
},
{
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough job",
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"sense": "bypass a prescribed route",
"word": "oikaista"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "bypass a prescribed route",
"word": "prendre des raccourcis"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "bypass a prescribed route",
"word": "prendere delle scorciatoie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "bypass a prescribed route",
"word": "atalhar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "偷工減料"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tōugōngjiǎnliào",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "偷工减料"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "vetää mutkat suoriksi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "hutiloida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "mennä sieltä mistä aita on matalin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "mennä yli siitä mistä aita on matalin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "tinkiä laadusta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "käyttää helpointa tapaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"tags": [
"Quebec"
],
"word": "couper les coins ronds"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "עיגל פינות \\ עִגֵּל פִּנּוֹת"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "te-wo nuku",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "手を抜く"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "iść na skróty"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job",
"word": "gambiarrar"
}
],
"word": "cut corners"
}
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