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"_dis1": "69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0",
"word": "cut-out"
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{
"_dis1": "69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0",
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"word": "cut out the middleman"
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"text": "Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster.",
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever."
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"word": "altranĉi"
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"text": "She kept clicking her heels. He told her to cut it out.",
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"ref": "1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 7, page 210:",
"text": "Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students, but if it is to retain favor the intercollegiate league should cut out the muckerism which has attended its contests on the ice in recent years.",
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"ref": "1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business:",
"text": "“Cut that joshing out,” she said, coolly and briskly. “Who do you think you are talking to? Your check, please. Oh, Lordy!—”",
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"ref": "1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 8:",
"text": "I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing — that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out.",
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"ref": "1899, Lady's Realm, volume 5, page 172:",
"text": "[…] cut him out in the affections of his lady-love!",
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"ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.2:",
"text": "There was little fear that the navigator of the captured Osprey, the man who had lived in Chile and \"cut out\" cattle on the Carrum Plains, would prove lacking in knowledge of riding, seamanship, or Spanish customs.",
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"ref": "2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC:",
"text": "As lax as the visitors' defence was, Blackpool's backline was solid. In the first half the Seasiders cut out final balls to Meireles, one of Liverpool's best players, on two occasions and after the break the brilliant Craig Cathcart got enough on his headed clearance to prevent Torres from planting into the net at the far post.",
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"(transitive) To intercept."
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"(intransitive, Australia, slang) To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines."
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "egne"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "egne sig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "auf etwas zugeschnitten sein"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "aus dem rechten Holz geschnitzt sein"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "kitalál (in the phrase ki van találva)"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "ritagliato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "adeguato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "idoneo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "estar hecho para"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "servir para"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "tener talento para"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "tener madera de"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "ser apto para"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "well suited for an activity",
"word": "tener madera para"
}
],
"word": "cut out"
}
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