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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cut and Run Be off as quickly as possible. A sea phrase, meaning cut your cable and run before the wind. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Avoidance | Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CUT AND RUN |
| English words defined with "CUT AND RUN": break away, bunk ♦ lam ♦ run, run away ♦ scarper ♦ turn tail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CUT AND RUN": Leg-bail. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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Expression using "CUT AND RUN": To cut and run. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cut and run | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CUT AND RUN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ضرب و يجري. (various references) | |
Czech | vzít nohy na ramena. (various references) | |
French | partir en courant, fuir. (various references) | |
Hungarian | eliszkol (bolt, cut out, to cut and run, to hare off). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utcay anday unray.(various references) | |
Romanian | o lua la sãnãtoasa (betake oneself to one's heels, give leg-bail, scuttle, show a clean pair of heels, skip). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-n-n-r-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: tundra. | |
-4 letters: adunc, daunt, ducat, uncut. | |
-5 letters: aunt, cant, card, carn, cart, crud, curd, curn, curt, darn, dart, daut, drat, duct, dunt, dura, durn, narc, nard, nurd, rand, rant, runt, tarn, trad, tuna, turd, turn, unau. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-n-n-r-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: uncurtained. | |
+5 letters: consuetudinary. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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