cut corners

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
    — […] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]
  2. To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts. idiomatic
    — The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.

词形变化

cuts corners present,singular,third-person cutting corners participle,present cut corners participle,past cut corners past
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