What is Cutting Your Losses?
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to extricate yourself from an impossible situation, where there is very little or no hope for improvement.
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cutting your losses:
The U.S. Government eventually decided to cut its losses with regard to the Vietnam War, and by the early 1970s withdrew all of its military forces from Southeast Asia.
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