cut off at the pass Idiom

a suicide pass (hockey)

a pass behind the player causing him to look back Older players always stop when receiving a suicide pass.

feather a pass (hockey)

pass a puck accurately but softly Nilsson could feather a pass better than the other players.

just passing through

(See pass through)

make a pass

show that you feel romantic toward someone Julie made a pass at me. She sent me a love note and smiled at me.

make a pass at someone

make romantic advances to a member of the opposite sex He was fired because he made a pass at one of the women who he works with.

pass

old fashioned, dated, old hat It's pass

pass around

pass from person to person in the room, hand out The speaker passed around a sheet of paper for us to sign.

pass away

die, pass on Grandma passed away in 1974. She was 92.

pass for

appear similar to, look like In that uniform, you could pass for a police officer.

pass muster

pass a test or checkup, be good enough I wrote some of the instructions of the computer manual and will send them to my partner to see if they pass muster.

cut (one) off at the pass

To accumulate one from accomplishing article (that usually involves an escape). Jeremy has been acting suspicious, so he's apparently activity to try to bastard out tonight, but I'm activity to cut him off at the pass.Learn more: cut, off, pass

cut someone off at the pass

Fig. to block someone's accomplishment to get away; to baffle someone's efforts. They are advanced now, but we'll cut them off at the pass. Try to cut off the bandits at the pass!Learn more: cut, off, pass

cut off at the pass, to

To stop or intercept. This announcement comes from hunt sequences in western movies of the 1930s and 1940s, in which pursuers (usually the “good” cowboys) would try to ambush their quarry (the outlaws) at a abundance pass. It gradually was continued to added endeavors. According to Brewer’s Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Phrase and Fable, in 1973 President Richard Nixon acclimated the appellation on the Watergate tapes, adage that the allegation of obstructing amends ability be cut off at the pass.Learn more: cut, off

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part with partners in crime party-pooper party to that pass pass around pass away pass for pass muster pass off pass on pass out pass the buck pass through pass up pass water pass wind cut in cut in line cut in on (something) cut in(to) cut into cut it cut it all off cut it close cut it fine cut it out Cut it out! cut it/things fine cut loose cut loose from cut losses cut no ice cut no ice with (one) cut no ice with someone cut no ice, to cut nose off to spite face cut of (one's) jib cut of his/her jib, I don't like the cut of one's jib cut off cut off (one's) nose to spite (one's) face cut off at the pass cut off at the pass, to cut off from the (outside) world cut off nose to spite face cut off one's nose to spite one's face cut off one's nose to spite one's face, to cut off with a cent cut off with a shilling cut off with(out) a shilling/cent cut off without a penny cut off your nose to spite your face cut on cut one cut one another's throats cut one loose cut one’s losses cut one’s own throat cut one’s wolf loose cut one's eyeteeth cut one's losses cut one's teeth on cut one's teeth on, to cut oneself on cut out cut out for cut out for (someone or something)