cut out

cut out
ADJ: usu with brd-neg, v-link ADJ, ADJ for n, ADJ to-inf
If you are not cut out for a particular type of work, you do not have the qualities that are needed to be able to do it well.

I left medicine anyway. I wasn't really cut out for it...

He doesn't feel he is cut out to be a leader.

1) PHRASAL VERB If you cut something out, you remove or separate it from what surrounds it using scissors or a knife.

[V P n (not pron)] Cut out the coupon and send those cheques off today...

[V n P] I cut it out and pinned it to my studio wall.

2) PHRASAL VERB If you cut out a part of a text, you do not print, publish, or broadcast that part, because to include it would make the text too long or unacceptable.

[V P n (not pron)] I listened to the programme and found they'd cut out all the interesting stuff...

[V P n (not pron) from/of n] Her editors wanted her to cut out the poetry from her novel...

[V P n (not pron) from/of n] Several extraneous prefaces were cut out of the prayer book at the beginning of the eleventh century. [Also V n P]

Syn:
cut, omit
3) PHRASAL VERB To cut out something unnecessary or unwanted means to remove it completely from a situation. For example, if you cut out a particular type of food, you stop eating it, usually because it is bad for you.

[V n P] I've simply cut egg yolks out entirely...

[V P n (not pron)] We will be pressing ahead with our policies on privatisation, deregulation and cutting out waste...

[V P n (not pron)] A guilty plea cuts out the need for a long trial.

Syn:
4) PHRASAL VERB (feelings) If you tell someone to cut something out, you are telling them in an irritated way to stop it. [INFORMAL]

[V n P] Do yourself a favour, and cut that behaviour out...

[V it P] `Cut it out, Chip,' I said...

[V P n (not pron)] He had better cut out the nonsense.

Syn:
5) PHRASAL VERB If you cut someone out of an activity, you do not allow them to be involved in it. If you cut someone out of a will, you do not allow them to share in it.

[V n P of n] Environmentalists say this would cut them out of the debate over what to do with public lands...

[V n P of n] `Cut her out of your will,' urged his nephew...

[be V-ed P] He felt that he was being cut out. [Also V P n (not pron)]

Syn:
Ant:
6) PHRASAL VERB If an object cuts out the light, it is between you and the light so that you are in the dark.

[V P n (not pron)] The curtains were half drawn to cut out the sunlight. [Also V n P]

7) PHRASAL VERB If an engine cuts out, it suddenly stops working.

[V P] The helicopter crash landed when one of its two engines cut out.

8) → See also , cut out
to have your work cut out → see work

English dictionary. 2008.

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