Incision Phrases

Phrases

• A mighty maze of mystic magic rays (lyric of song used at the opening of television)
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• 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
• Director's cut
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Final cut
• First cut
• Fish or cut bait
• Four score and seven years ago
• Half cut
• Have your work cut out for you
• Keep score
• Know the score
• 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
• Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
• Prime cut
• Score an own goal
• Score points off
• Score to settle
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Take it up a notch
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The cut of your jib
• The unkindest cut of all
• Three score and ten
• To cut a long story short
• Top notch
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife