cut sb up
UK (US cut sb off) — phrasal verb with cut /kʌt/ verb (present tense cutting, past tense and past participle cut)Definition
› to suddenly move your car sideways in front of another car that was in front of you, leaving too little space: I got/was cut up several times on the motorway this morning - I've never seen such dangerous driving!Driving and operating road vehicles
(Definition of cut sb up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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cut sb some slack idiom
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cut sb/sth off phrasal verb
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cut sth off phrasal verb (REMOVE)
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cut sth off phrasal verb (STOP)
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Synonyms and related words:
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- dip verb (DROP)
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