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punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I assumed you would use dots to show left-out unnecessary text in a quote, such as in The definition of used oil is "oil that is xyz" The deleted portion is non-useful text that would confuse my readers, but I want to show them that the cited passage is a direct quote from regulations except for leaving out some words
Usage of be cut out for - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In other words, it is perfectly fine to say: "He is cut out to be a policeman " To see this, just consult the results here But note that some of these results contain another idiomatic construction: "We have our work cut out for us", which means (roughly) "We're going to have a tough time with this work"
What are the origins for the phrases Knock it off and Cut it out? Knock off has numerous meanings, so it’s unlikely that there is one explanation for them all The OED’s earliest citation in the sense ‘to dispatch, dispose of, put out of hand, accomplish; to complete or do hastily’ is dated 1817, but it has been used to mean ‘To cause to desist or leave off from work’ since 1651
Meaning of Cut my legs out from under me? [closed] Organized crime has emerged as the number one threat to Canada's overall security, yet the government has cut the legs out from under Canada's security committee "Having a national formulary as a defining component of a national pharmacare program," said Brian Ferguson, "would cut the legs out from under the provinces to make decisions about
expressions - Ive got my work cut out for me. Origin, meaning . . . As the OED entry shows "cut out work" is work that has been prepared in advance by someone other than the person who will do it, e g I cut out 1,000 pieces of cloth; you sew them into a suit Your work has been cut out for you P 2 a P 2 a i to cut out work (for a person): to prepare work to be done by a person; to give a person something to do
More eloquent idiom expression for the phrase cut it at the roots . . . A very comparable idiom is "to cut the head off the snake" It means to stop a larger problem by aiming at the source - often the leader, or a major culprit The implication is that the rest of the problem will naturally die off without that source It is sometimes used in military situations to mean targeting the head of an organization
Why do you cut a check? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Examples from Google Books indicate that "cut checks" goes back to the nineteenth century, both in the sense of "create or make out a check" and in the sense of "cancel or spindle a check " From the discussion in George Jackson's 1841 book on accounting, it appears that in that era checks were indeed cut from a master checkbook at need
The meaning and etymology of cut to the heart 1797 B Hawkins Lett (1916) 126 He was driving a wagon at the time he was taken, and they cut out and took the horses with him 1949 ‘M Innes’ Journeying Boy ii 25 ‘And now you'd better cut along ’ Captain Cox was a great believer in the moral effects of abrupt dismissals on the young
Whats the origin of the idiom to cut your teeth on something? cut one's teeth on: to do at the beginning of one's education, career, etc , or in one's youth: The hunter boasted of having cut his teeth on tigers It's a metaphoric reference to when a baby's teeth first appear They grow (cut) through the gums - often painfully, which also gives us the figurative usage teething troubles
Cut the lights on - English Language Usage Stack Exchange cut and run To start quickly run away Christine Ammer, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, second edition (2013) has a more extensive entry for "cut and run": cut and run Clear out, escape, desert, as in He wished he could just cut and run This term originally (about 1700) meant to cut a vessel[']s anchor cable and make sail at once