cut out
- eliminate
- arrange
Wiktionary
adj
- Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose.
“I'm not really cut out for camping outdoors. I'm allergic to mosquito bites.”
“We've got our work cut out for us.”
verb
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To sever from something larger, with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument.
“Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster.”
- To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
“He had to cut out smoking in order to be prepared for the marathon.”
“She kept clicking her heels. He told her to cut it out.”
- To remove; to omit.
“If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits.”
“Help me find a sharper knife I need to cut you out my life”
- To oust; to replace.
“[…] cut him out in the affections of his lady-love!”
- To separate (an animal) from the herd.
“There was little fear that the navigator of the captured Osprey, the man who had lived in Chile and "cut out" cattle on the Carrum Plains, would prove lacking in knowledge of riding, seamanship, or Spanish customs.”
- To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
“It was around then that the engine suddenly cut out.”
“Can you say that again? You keep cutting out.”
- To leave suddenly.
“He must have cut out of the party.”
“'True. I told you to take it home with you. It's still there?' 'Yes, sir.... But I could cut out and be back under the hour—time to do these letters for the post.'”
- To arrange or prepare.
“He has his work cut out for him.”
- To intercept.
“As lax as the visitors' defence was, Blackpool's backline was solid. In the first half the Seasiders cut out final balls to Meireles, one of Liverpool's best players, on two occasions and after the break the brilliant Craig Cathcart got enough on his headed clearance to prevent Torres from planting into the net at the far post.”
- To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.
- To spend (money).
“After the flicks, Les and I cut out what was left of the cone money on a milkshake.”