What is Cut Corners?
1.
To do a
Make money-saving decisions on a project at significant expense of quality.
Bob decided to cut corners by building his boat out of cheap plywood instead of reinforced carbon-fibre.
2.
To cut corners basically means to shirk, to avoid doing something, like when you're sweeping things and you sweep it under a table or a fridge to avoid having to actually use a dustpan.
Have you SEEN what's growing under the fridge? Damn, I give you a simple chore and you still cut corners!
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3.
to do a really half assed job
billy cut corners to save money on building the house
4.
To do something with less than the appropriate amount of care. Possibly from the practice of taking a short cut when running around a city block, effectively cuting off a corner of the route.
If they hadn't cut so many corners when building that bridge, it probably wouldn't have fallen down.
5.
To take a shortcut. Sometimes refers to doing something more quickly or for a lesser cost, but at a lesser quality.
In order to save time, some workers cut corners and don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom.
The manager told the cashier, "When selling cigarettes, you cannot cut corners. You must check their ID."
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6.
To perform a task in the quickest and easiest way, in another word, the American way.
We call cut corners as Effective Time Management or ETM for short, it cuts corners.
7.
When you have to do something, and in order to finish it faster you leave some parts out. This is usually negative and associated with cheating.
The history report was due on Monday so Maya cut corners by leaving out the time line.
Robert was supposed to run around the entire track but he cut corners by taking a shortcut and not going around the corners. (I believe this is where the term is derived from)
