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Meaning of cut off a corner | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To take a shortcut.

Examples

“Pioneer seemed now to have⟳ the game in his own⟳ hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut⟳ off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall⟳, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase⟳.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

cut off at the pass cut off more than one can chew cut off more than one could chew cut off one's nose to spite one's face cut one cut one loose

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