"prime cut" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1884, George T. Lowth, The Immortal Schoolmaster, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 34",
          "text": "Does he follow his nature, and go into the prime cut like a man; or does he put it away from him and follow the ways of the old prophet out in the desert of Arabia, and content himself with a dinner upon air with a drink of water to wash it down?",
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          "ref": "2009, Sayantani DasGupta, “The Doctor’s Wife”, in Mark D. Tyler-Lloyd, editor, The Real Life of an Internist (Kaplan Voices: Doctors), New York, N.Y.: Kaplan Publishing",
          "text": "My husband brings his work home. Had he been a butcher, it might have been a prime cut of steak; a mason, a block of limestone. […] But my husband is an oncologist, so he brings home the dead and dying.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Gail Oust, chapter 5, in Rosemary and Crime: A Spice Shop Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books; Thomas Dunne Books",
          "text": "Not sure these old bones of mine are up to slaying any dragons, but if it's a prime cut of meat you want, I'm your guy.",
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        "A top-quality serving of meat."
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        "(cooking) A top-quality serving of meat."
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          "ref": "2004, Sidney Offit, “No Time for Senior’s”, in Tim McLoughlin, editor, Brooklyn Noir, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Akashic Books",
          "text": "I got no idea who he thinks is listening to us, but I register that this is prime cut information.",
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          "ref": "2011, John Lutz, chapter 39, in Fear the Night, New York, N.Y.: Pinnacle Books",
          "text": "He graduated magna cum laude from ASU in three years, then promptly earned his MBA from the Wharton School. Corporate recruiters saw him as prime cut.",
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          "ref": "2013, John Haggerty, “The Meat Forest”, in John [Gregory] Betancourt et al., editors, The Haunts & Horrors Megapack, [Rockville, Md.]: Wildside Press, page 161",
          "text": "The new kid was covered in mud, the thin drizzle doing nothing to clean him off, but it was clear he was a prime cut.",
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          "ref": "2015, Mark Ribowsky, Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, page 189",
          "text": "[…] with Rolling Stone's John Milward hailing the band's [Lynyrd Skynyrd's] \"Southern blues-rock diced with the sharp blade of British hard rock\" as \"a prime cut of guitar rock\" and Ronnie's \"world-weary\" vocals \"barroom-tough on rockers, properly vulnerable on … 'Searching' and 'The Needle and the Spoon'.\"",
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          "text": "[…] with Rolling Stone's John Milward hailing the band's [Lynyrd Skynyrd's] \"Southern blues-rock diced with the sharp blade of British hard rock\" as \"a prime cut of guitar rock\" and Ronnie's \"world-weary\" vocals \"barroom-tough on rockers, properly vulnerable on … 'Searching' and 'The Needle and the Spoon'.\"",
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