Commonly-Used Idioms, Sayings and phrasal verbs - Saigontre

cut one's losses
- to reduce one's losses
We decided to cut our losses and sell our business before it lost too much money.
cut out for (something)
- to have a talent for something, to be suited for something
I do not think that I am cut out for all of the travelling that is required for this job.
cut out (something)
- to eliminate something
My cousin decided to cut out chocolate in order to lose weight.
cut out the deadwood
- to remove unproductive people from a job
The company began to cut out the deadwood and fired many people.
cut (someone) a check
- to write a check to someone
We cut the man a check for the work that he had done.
cut (someone) down to size
- to prove that someone is not as good as he or she thinks
I cut my colleague down to size when I criticized what he had said at the meeting.
cut (someone) in
- to give someone a share of something
I cut my friend in on the profits from selling the computers.
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