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单词 cut and run
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Example sentences from the Web for cut and run

  • Today the Gipper would be considered lily-livered, a “ surrender monkey,” another member of the “cut-and-run crowd.”

    The New GOP Warmongers|Matt Latimer|March 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST
  • Ill betide the Hun who dared to make a cut-and-run raid upon Dover.

    The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge|Percy F. Westerman

cut and run

SEE SYNONYMS FOR cut and run ON THESAURUS.COM

Clear out, escape, desert, as in He wished he could just cut and run. This term originally (about 1700) meant to cut a vessel's anchor cable and make sail at once. By the mid-1800s it was being used figuratively. Charles Dickens had it in Great Expectations (1861): “I'd give a shilling if they had cut and run.” Also see cut out, def. 7.

Words nearby cut and run

cut a long story short, cut-and-cover, cut-and-dried, cut and fill, cut-and-paste, cut and run, cut and thrust, cut-and-try, cutaneomeningospinal angiomatosis, cutaneous, cutaneous horn
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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