Meaning of cut corners | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
2. To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]”

“The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.”

“Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.”

“To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times.”

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