Carve Phrases

Phrases

• A slice of the cake
• Any way you slice it
• Bent out of shape
• Carve Her Name With Pride (Virginia McKenna movie)
• Carve out a niche
• Carve up
• Carved in stone
• Clean cut boy
• Cut a cheque
• Cut a dash
• Cut a deal
• Cut a hog
• Cut a long story short
• Cut a rug
• Cut a wide swathe (make a pompous display)
• Cut above the rest
• Cut and dried
• Cut and paste
• Cut and run
• Cut and shut
• Cut and thrust
• Cut bait
• Cut corners
• Cut costs
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut it fine
• Cut it out
• Cut loose
• Cut no ice
• Cut off at the knees
• Cut off without a penny
• Cut out for
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut some slack
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cackle
• Cut the cheese
• Cut the cord
• Cut the crap
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Cut the mustard
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Cut throat competition
• Cut through the red tape
• Cut to the chase
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Cut up rough
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Cut your losses
• Cut your own throat
• Cut your teeth
• Digital divide
• Director's cut
• Divide and conquer
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Final cut
• First cut
• Fish or cut bait
• Fresh to the last slice (Sunblest Bread advertising slogan)
• Get in shape
• Get into shape
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Grub Street hack
• Half cut
• Have your work cut out for you
• Keep in shape
• Knock into shape
• Lick into shape
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Make the cut
• Measure twice, cut once
• Miss the cut
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Not cut out for it
• Prime condition (in perfect shape)
• Prime cut
• Religious divide
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Slice of life
• Slice of the action
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Take shape
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The cut of your jib
• The north south divide
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The shape of things to come
• The unkindest cut of all
• Throw a shape
• To cut a long story short
• Whittle away at
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife