Comments on: Cut through https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/ Upgrade your English Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:13:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/#comment-2169 Sun, 01 May 2022 22:53:00 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=13181#comment-2169 In reply to Eugene.

Great examples! “Cut their way through” is also a good example where you have to do a little work to get to where you’re going.

]]> By: Eugene https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/#comment-2152 Sat, 23 Apr 2022 08:49:47 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=13181#comment-2152 Back when I was a kid our district was cut off from the nearest shop by a huge steep ravine. For most of the adults it was absolutely not an option to cut their way through that ravine, so they preferred to use a bridge nearby. But for the kids from my neighborhood it was natural to cut through that ravine to get to the shop.

]]> By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/#comment-2128 Thu, 14 Apr 2022 02:10:26 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=13181#comment-2128 In reply to Claudio.

Cut through is almost always used with some physical or geographical space. In the case of saving time, you could say, “He is very smart and skipped ahead two years.” Skip ahead I think is better if you have an expected timetable, but you do something faster. This is common in school.

]]> By: Claudio https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/#comment-2122 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:01:53 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=13181#comment-2122 He is very smart and cut through his way to colegge. He just did two years in High School.

]]> By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/#comment-2113 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:50:48 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=13181#comment-2113 In reply to Leon.

I was able to see that and read the page in English! That looks like an innovative solution. (By the way, the opposite of salt water is “fresh water.”)

]]> By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/#comment-2109 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:40:03 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=13181#comment-2109 In reply to EVERSON ZIN.

Ah great example! Maybe say, “We don’t have highways that cut through our country…”

]]> By: Leon https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/#comment-2094 Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:22:31 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=13181#comment-2094 Hi Jeff
Thanks for this lesson. For the first time I am proud about my country the Netherlands. I will inform you about this very special great and expensive project. https://deafsluitdijk.nl/projecten/vismigratierivier/. I hope you can read it in English.
It is a High way on a dike between salt en sweet water and the dike protects our country and his inhabitants but give the underwater live space.

]]> By: EVERSON ZIN https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-through/#comment-2090 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 09:50:16 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=13181#comment-2090 Brazil is a huge country, we have big states and few highways. We don’t have one or more highways to cut through our country from east to west, or south to north.

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