Meaning of prime cut | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A top-quality serving of meat.
2. Something that represents the best quality in its class.
   broadly

Examples

“Does he follow his nature, and go into the prime cut like a man; or does he put it away from him and follow the ways of the old prophet out in the desert of Arabia, and content himself with a dinner upon air with a drink of water to wash it down?”

“My husband brings his work home. Had he been a butcher, it might have been a prime cut of steak; a mason, a block of limestone. […] But my husband is an oncologist, so he brings home the dead and dying.”

“Not sure these old bones of mine are up to slaying any dragons, but if it's a prime cut of meat you want, I'm your guy.”

“I got no idea who he thinks is listening to us, but I register that this is prime cut information.”

“He graduated magna cum laude from ASU in three years, then promptly earned his MBA from the Wharton School. Corporate recruiters saw him as prime cut.”

“The new kid was covered in mud, the thin drizzle doing nothing to clean him off, but it was clear he was a prime cut.”

“[…] with Rolling Stone's John Milward hailing the band's [Lynyrd Skynyrd's] "Southern blues-rock diced with the sharp blade of British hard rock" as "a prime cut of guitar rock" and Ronnie's "world-weary" vocals "barroom-tough on rockers, properly vulnerable on … 'Searching' and 'The Needle and the Spoon'."”

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