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Cut corners

verb
Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.verbTo bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
2.verbTo do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.
"The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm."

Synonyms

follow the path of least resistanceshort cutsskimptake the easy way outcut acrosscut throughbeat the systemwork aroundcut inturn square cornersskirt aroundget around
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