"cortar por lo sano" meaning in Spanish

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "corto por lo sano",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "corté por lo sano",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cortado por lo sano",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cortar por lo sano (first-person singular present corto por lo sano, first-person singular preterite corté por lo sano, past participle cortado por lo sano)",
      "name": "es-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to cut the Gordian knot"
      ],
      "id": "en-cortar_por_lo_sano-es-verb-LnTOVWHs",
      "links": [
        [
          "cut the Gordian knot",
          "cut the Gordian knot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to cut the Gordian knot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 61 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The job took me a long time so I had to cut my losses and tell them that I wasn't going to take those kinds of jobs anymore, unless they paid me better.",
          "ref": "2010, Adela Robles-Sáez, 3,000 locuciones verbales y combinaciones frecuentes, Georgetown University Press, page 71",
          "text": "El trabajo me salió muy largo así que tuve que cortar por lo sano y decirles que ya no iba a aceptar más ese tipo de trabajos, a menos que me pagaran mejor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make a clean break, to cut one's losses"
      ],
      "id": "en-cortar_por_lo_sano-es-verb-SqfjhY7l",
      "links": [
        [
          "make a clean break",
          "make a clean break"
        ],
        [
          "cut one's losses",
          "cut one's losses"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to make a clean break, to cut one's losses"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to cut to the chase"
      ],
      "id": "en-cortar_por_lo_sano-es-verb-pOtlpL75",
      "links": [
        [
          "cut to the chase",
          "cut to the chase"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to cut to the chase"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cortar por lo sano"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish multiword terms",
    "Spanish verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "corto por lo sano",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "corté por lo sano",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cortado por lo sano",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cortar por lo sano (first-person singular present corto por lo sano, first-person singular preterite corté por lo sano, past participle cortado por lo sano)",
      "name": "es-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to cut the Gordian knot"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cut the Gordian knot",
          "cut the Gordian knot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to cut the Gordian knot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish idioms",
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The job took me a long time so I had to cut my losses and tell them that I wasn't going to take those kinds of jobs anymore, unless they paid me better.",
          "ref": "2010, Adela Robles-Sáez, 3,000 locuciones verbales y combinaciones frecuentes, Georgetown University Press, page 71",
          "text": "El trabajo me salió muy largo así que tuve que cortar por lo sano y decirles que ya no iba a aceptar más ese tipo de trabajos, a menos que me pagaran mejor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make a clean break, to cut one's losses"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make a clean break",
          "make a clean break"
        ],
        [
          "cut one's losses",
          "cut one's losses"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to make a clean break, to cut one's losses"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to cut to the chase"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cut to the chase",
          "cut to the chase"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to cut to the chase"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cortar por lo sano"
}