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cut on Idiom

cut one

spoil one's chances, ruin a person He is cutting his own throat if he doesn't make an effort to find a new job quickly.

cut one's losses

do something to stop losing money or something We should sell the old machinery as soon as possible and try and cut our losses.

cut one's own throat

Idiom(s): cut one's (own) throat

Theme: HARM

[for someone] to experience certain failure; to do damage to someone. (Informal.)
• If I were to run for office, I'd just be cutting my throat.
• Judges who take bribes are cutting their own throats.

cut one's eyeteeth on

Idiom(s): cut one's eyeteeth on sth

Theme: TRAINING

to have done something since one was very young; to have much experience at something. (Folksy.)
• Do I know about cars? I cut my eyeteeth on cars.
• I cut my eyeteeth on Bach. I can whistle everything he wrote.

cut one's losses|cut|loss|losses

v. phr. To stop spending time, money, or energy on unprofitable projects and concentrate on what goes well. "Just cut your losses, Jim," his father suggested, "and get on with the rest of your life."

cut one's throat|cut|throat

v. phr., informal To spoil one's chances; ruin a person. He cut his own throat by his carelessness. The younger men in the company were cutting each other's throats in their eagerness to win success. John cut Freddie's throat with Mary by telling her lies.

cut teeth|cut|cut one's eye teeth on|cut one's tee

v. phr. 1. To have teeth grow out through the gums. The baby was cross because he was cutting teeth. 2. cut eye teeth informal To learn something very early in life; gain experience; start by learning or doing.

Used with a possessive, usually used with "on". The professional ball player cut his teeth on a baseball bat in the sandlots. Mr. Jones's company is building the new Post Office in town but Mr. Jones cut his eye teeth as a carpenter.

cut one's teeth on

cut one's teeth on
Also, cut one's eyeteeth on. Get one's first experience by doing, or learn early in life, as in I cut my teeth on this kind of layout or He cut his eyeteeth on magazine editing. This term alludes to the literal verb to cut teeth, meaning “to have teeth first emerge through a baby's gums,” a usage dating from the late 1600s.

cut (oneself) on (something)

To cut or cleft a allotment of one's anatomy on some aciculate object, abnormally accidentally. We came aback aboriginal because Jeff cut himself on a carapace at the beach. Tara cut herself on a atom of bottle from the burst mirror.Learn more: cut, on

cut (something) on (something)

1. To accidentally cut or cleft a allotment of the anatomy on something, about a aciculate object. We came aback aboriginal because Jeff cut his bottom on a carapace at the beach.2. To chop article into pieces while it is comatose on a accurate surface. I fabricated some amplitude so you can cut those vegetables on the counter.Learn more: cut, on

cut something on something

1. to allotment article on or adjoin something, accidentally. I cut my feel on the knife. Maria cut her bottom on the burst glass.
2. to allotment article that is lying on article else. I cut the tomatoes on the acid lath your mother gave us.Learn more: cut, on

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